[NTLUG:Discuss] ubuntu 6.10 start up question

[Terry Henderson]

On 1/1/07, C.Wesbrooks <cwesbrooks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am somewhat new to Ubuntu and I have an issue that I can not seem to
> Google an answer. First, it does not seem to affect me running Ubuntu
> 6.10 on my IBM A31 Laptop that I just got (used). When I am watching the
> start up screen and the line " Loading Hardware Drivers... " comes up it
> says Failed. I have had no problems other than some times it seems to
> lock up when browsing with Firefox. I think that has to do with the fact
> that it only has 256MB of ram, and have ordered 512MB for it. (update:
> got it and installed it.)



Run firefox from terminal window and watch for errors in standard output
when it crashes.

Is there some thing that I can do while it is starting up, with Grub, to
> see what has failed? Is there some way to pull a file and look at the



See dmesg

Grub default kernel, (this is a second question) it is loading the i386
> kernel and I have and wish to use the i686 kernel.
>
> Thanks in Advance for any help or websites that will explain more.
> Carlos
>
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