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Category Archives: GRUB

Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Upgrade Crashed

Monday, October 29, 2007

What a disappointment. I’ve previously written about experiencing the Blank Screen Bug in Gutsy with the Release Candidate CD. Today, I was forced to experience that the problem is still there on the official release. I used Adept Manager to update 16 packages it noticed that were behind. After the update, it finally figured out [...]

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Recovering a crashed Windows on Dual Boot

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Having previously configured my laptop for dual boot, I was satisfied with the way things were running. My wife would use XP. We’d enabled GRUB to save the default using the Start Up Manager, so we could hibernate in order to switch users and operating systems.
All was fine until Windows said “ENOUGH!” and bit the [...]

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StartUp Manager : Old News Good Utility

Monday, September 10, 2007

Browsing some other blogs, I encountered the Ubuntu StartUp Manager. It allows you to customize some of the GRUB settings, which are rather helpful. It allows

you to change the resolution, the colors, and the default selection… even allowing you to automatically use what was last selected. This is especially helpful for dual boot computers, [...]

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