On Jul 13, 2015 10:43 AM, "Denis Heidtmann" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > For some reason there is a remnant of the old grub hanging around on > > your system and occasionally your system is trying to boot from it. > > You might diagnose the problem by running sudo bootinfoscript > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/ > > and looking at the RESULTS.TXT file it creates. > > Bill > > > > You are correct, but I certainly do not know what all the stuff in > RESULTS.TXT means to me. Here is what appears to be essential (let me > know if you need more): > > Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012] > > > ============================= Boot Info Summary: > =============================== > > => Grub Legacy (v0.97) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on > the > same drive in partition #1 for /boot/grub/stage2 and > /boot/grub/menu.lst. > > sda1: > __________________________________________________________________________ > > File system: ext3 > Boot sector type: - > Boot sector info: > Operating System: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS > Boot files: /boot/grub/menu.lst /etc/fstab > /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf > > sda2: > __________________________________________________________________________ > > File system: Extended Partition > Boot sector type: - > Boot sector info: > > sda5: > __________________________________________________________________________ > > File system: swap > Boot sector type: - > Boot sector info: > > > Doesn't this say that Legacy Grub is what is always used? > > What actions do you recommenced? > > Thanks so much for your help. > > -Denis > Yes, this shows the system is using grub legacy and I am pretty sure that is what is causing your boot problems. There is a page here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Upgrading
describing how to upgrade to grub2. Bill _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
