Okay so i decided to try the newest distro... meh it's ubuntu ...
but im having issued with GRUB2 ... on my old laptop... it doesn't boot unless i edit part of the GRUB menu ... i can't for the life of me find the file i need to permanently fix this... it's annoying and also keeps the thing from botting back up after it goes to "sleep".
and when i installed it on a partition on my new laptop with Win7... i get to GRUB but it doesn't load at all ... :( ... i can get win7 up but not Ubuntu ...
after a couple of weeks trying off and on to get it to work i think im just going to give up on ubuntu and try out something else ...
it's probably just that i don't know squat about GRUB 2 so i can go in and fix these things.
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just random today i guess... i seriously have nothing to "work" on... there's lots of stuff i can do but it's not fun actual work stuff...
i should have brought my laptop to work and tried to fix my issues on it today lol
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my job rocks i was just told to go home and log in ... if im needed they will call me into the office... most likely i can do anything they ask from home though ...
Don't give up on Ubuntu!
I had the same problem with GRUB. unfortunately, as with most Linux issues, the way I fixed it is long lost to the world. I remmebr editing my grub file by hand, but I can't specifically find the lines I added at present. Apologies, but I just wanted to let you know that there's hope! I have the last release of Kubuntu on my win7 computer, so unless something fundamental changed, which I doubt, it should be the same. I'll keep checking.
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Also, thanks for being 20x more awesome than the rest of America and using a real operating system. You're cool as hell.
<------- Linux elitist.
strange, i just downloaded ubuntu yesterday for my laptop.
i found the answers ... yay... and i think i understand it now
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2Brim... go for it... there is all kinds of support out there just google your error message and someone probably has had the same exact issue... most likely even witht he same hardware...
And i think im going to use gentoo on the old laptop... and really learn how this stuff works...
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okay i need to put something in the /etc/grub.d/40_custom
now to find a boot entry that i can copy and paste so thign thing will boot without me having to edit it at each startup
hell'z yeah bitches... i fixed that crap answer found here...
http://www.homeless.elementfx.com/blog/200...h-device-error/now the old beater laptop is user friendly for everyone ...
hopefully this fix will work for my main pc with 7 on it also... bout to find out
Brim if you need help let me know... im a complete novice but... i've got pretty good at looking stuff up... i can at the very least help you find answers to your issues.... if you have any
my issue is due to the fact that my hardware doesn't
Check out ubuntuforms.org.
that's the place for all your answers...
