[PLUG] Desktop machine failures

[Bill Barry]

On Jul 13, 2015 10:43 AM, "Denis Heidtmann" <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> 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.

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