{"id":942,"date":"2008-11-04T20:03:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T20:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=942"},"modified":"2008-11-04T20:03:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T20:03:45","slug":"grub-editing-upgrading-from-ubuntu-804-to-810-nvidia-issue-solved-for-me-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Grub Editing &#8211; Upgrading From Ubuntu 8.04 To 8.10 &#8211; Nvidia Issue &#8211; Solved (for me anyway)."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Grub%20Editing%20-%20Upgrading%20From%20Ubuntu%208.04%20To%208.10%20-%20Nvidia%20Issue%20-%20Solved%20%28for%20me%20anyway%29.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Geek Alert!!!<\/p>\n<p>I upgraded from Hardy Heron to Intrepid Ibex and had problems with my video configuration. Previously, I was using the Nvidia driver without any problems at all, but after the upgrade, when I booted into Ibex, I would get the nvidia driver error and would be forced to operate in low res graphic mode. I installed and reinstalled nvidia drivers, first 177, then, since my card is a bit dated, downgrading to 173. Still no luck. I found the solution, and it wasn&#8217;t a driver problem after all. I have several Distros running on my computer, and my grub on MBR was point to the boot folder on an older distro, Mint 5 Xfce, and of course, that \/boot\/menu.lst did not get updated to the new configuration. So I went into grub and rooted the \/grub\/boot\/menu.lst to the correct path on the updated Ubuntu partition (&#8220;\/boot\/grub\/stage1&#8221; should also work).<\/p>\n<p>When you boot into your grub menu, type &#8220;c&#8221; to get to the command line.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"grub line\" src=\"http:\/\/users.bigpond.net.au\/hermanzone\/p15\/fig2grub.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"406\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, lets say, like me, you have a bazillion partitions on your hard drives and you don&#8217;t remember which one has the correct \/boot\/grub\/menu.lst, type this command to search for the one you want.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>grub&gt; find \/boot\/grub\/menu.lst<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Press enter. You&#8217;ll get something like this.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>grub&gt;  find \/boot\/grub\/menu.lst<br \/>\n(hd0,1)<br \/>\n(hd0,5)<br \/>\n(hd0,6)<br \/>\n(hd0,7)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well crap! Which one is the right one? At this point, you need to look inside the \/boot\/grub\/menu.lst file to find the most up to date kernel configuration, in this case, Ibex is using the 2.6.27-7 kernel. Lets open each file, starting with the first eligible partition.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>grub&gt;  cat (hd0,1)\/boot\/grub\/menu.lst<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Make sure there is no space between (hd0,1) and \/boot\/&#8230;<br \/>\nYou now can see the boot configuration in this file. The info we are looking for is found where you see this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>## ## End Default Options ##<\/p>\n<p>title\t\tUbuntu 8.10, <strong>kernel 2.6.27-7-generic<\/strong><br \/>\nroot\t\t(hd1,0)<br \/>\nkernel\t\t\/boot\/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=630d5f38-97f8-4b30-a650-1bd014770981 ro quiet splash<br \/>\ninitrd\t\t\/boot\/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic<br \/>\nquiet<\/p>\n<p>title\t\tUbuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (recovery mode)<br \/>\nroot\t\t(hd1,0)<br \/>\nkernel\t\t\/boot\/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=630d5f38-97f8-4b30-a650-1bd014770981 ro  single<br \/>\ninitrd\t\t\/boot\/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic&#8230;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the correct \/boot\/grub\/menu.lst file. Mine was on (hd0,4), so I had to look in a few files before I found the right one. Now that we know where the correct menu.lst file is, we need to set grub to point to this file.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>grub&gt; root (hd0,4)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then, write the information to grub, which in most cases will be installed on your MBR, at (hd0)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>grub&gt; setup (hd0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, to reboot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>grub&gt; reboot (or exit)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now you should be booting into the right version of Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note#1:<\/strong> I had really scrambled my xorg.conf file, and as soon as I reinstalled the Nvidia 173 driver, I have had no problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note # 2:<\/strong> If you have grub installed via Suse or Ubuntu with the fancy splash screen, you&#8217;ll lose those graphics. I think that you can restore that by reinstalling grub after you&#8217;ve booted into the correct distro, in my case, Ubuntu kernel 2.6.27.<\/p>\n<p>More info <a href=\"http:\/\/users.bigpond.net.au\/hermanzone\/p15.htm\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedoimedo.com\/computers\/grub.html#mozTocId233239\">here<\/a>. Hope this helps. Happy grubbing!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Grub%20Editing%20-%20Upgrading%20From%20Ubuntu%208.04%20To%208.10%20-%20Nvidia%20Issue%20-%20Solved%20%28for%20me%20anyway%29.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Geek Alert!!! I upgraded from Hardy Heron to Intrepid Ibex and had problems with my video configuration. Previously, I was using the Nvidia driver without any problems at all, but after the upgrade, when I booted into Ibex, I would get the nvidia driver error and would be forced to operate in low res graphic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}