Jaunty booting problems with Grub2

So, I have a separate /boot partition. I installed the Ubuntu Karmic Alpha3 today. Foolishly enough, the first time, I didn’t install Grub. So, I boot into Jaunty and try to do the old grub-legacy “find /boot/grub/stage1″ , and it gives me the error 15: File not found, despite pointing it to the new Karmic [...]

Triple Boot!Windows XP,Ubuntu 8.04,openSUSE 11.0!

Received openSUSE 11.0 DVD from Sameep of GNU/Linux Users Group of Bombay(GLUG-Bom) on Saturday via courier.Plopped it in and 1st of all,checked the media for errors to prevent another Mandriva 2007 experience. Plopped the DVD in for installation wherein it stopped at Initializing Package Manager for an inordinate time ,for me,did a hard [...]

Exaile

Comments to my article on my top 6 applications to install after you install Ubuntu suggested that I should keep KDE applications out of the list,because they come with a huge related load of KDE libraries and use up more RAM.Also,Exaile and Brasero were suggested as alternatives to amaroK and K3B respectively.
So,I upgraded to Ubuntu [...]

20th Jun to 23rd Jun

20th Jun:
Huge traffic on the Mumbai GNU/Linux users group mailing list about where to hold the meet,timing all decided,agenda all decided,but no venue!Sanjay had come up with an offer to host the meet at his place on the 18th,but there’s no consensus,whether we should go to Bandra or IIT would be a better choice.Vipul tries [...]

Top 6 applications you could install after installing Ubuntu Linux

My top 6 favourite applications to be installed on Ubuntu Linux would be as follows:
1]amaroK:
It’s a media player for the KDE desktop,can be installed on the GNOME desktop which is the default on Ubuntu at the cost of a few extra libraries which don’t affect your PC performance if you have approximately 384 Mb or [...]

Kernel attempts to kill Init.

Problems that dogged me:
1]The Live CD could not boot the ATi Radeon XPress 200(RC410) integrated card on my Intel D101GGC motherboard.
2]I ran the text mode(pseudo-GUI?) installer and refused to install the Gentoo Grub opting instead to add the relevant entries to my Ubuntu 7.04 /boot/grub/menu.lst.So,I added the following for Gentoo:
title Gentoo 2007
root (hd0,8 )
kernel [...]

Gentoo installed!Some configuration left.

Well,I took the plunge and installed Gentoo 2007 through text installer today.I was delaying for quite a few weeks thinking that I got to get a GUI before I can be sure about my install,but I made a leap of faith and went ahead,though the partitioning step scared the guts out of me since my [...]

Barcamp Mumbai 2

I attended my first barcamp today at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,Shailesh J. Mehta School Of Management.Met some interesting guys like the “Pluggie” Shirish who wouldn’t use a mobile phone till OpenMoko came out!Was really impressed by the www.gnome.in
idea of getting the community to express their creativity and get some pocket money as a byproduct.The [...]

Nice day upto now….Ubuntu back online

Woke up early,just about the right time to get to class on time.My Grub error 17 problem was finally solved by nuking and remaking the /boot partition.A preliminary guess by the list was a corrupted filesystem but when I came to think about it,fsck.ext2 had given a “clean” verdict.Rony suggested that he had faced problems [...]