[PLUG] What fixed my Ubuntu 10.x boot problem for now.

[Kirk Goins]

First I live mostly in Windows and a set of IBM hardware called Power
Systems. I am a educated 'user' not an admin on any PC based OS so here
goes my story.

I was able to boot from the CD and then poke around on the hard disk. With
help from the list here I found the file /boot/grub/grub.cfg.  Never did
find the suggested menu.lst I believe someone mentioned. This files first
line is DO NOT EDIT this file. I made a backup and then edited away. There
are many groups starting with menuentry and ending with a }  . I removed
the 2 sets referring to the -39 kernel and saved the the file. The system
now boots. If I run update-grub it would read the folder with the boot
images and would put the -39 entries back in. So for now I I have deleted
all the files
from the /boot that had the -39 in the name then reran update-grub and all
is well or at least back to working.

Still having a problem finding the actual parm(s) to set so grub will pause
a few seconds on boot before starting the default. Maybe I will bring it to
the clinic next weekend.

Thanks for the help and for tolerating a grumpy user.

-- 
Kirk