[NTLUG:Discuss] ubuntu 6.10 start up question

[Terry Henderson]

On 1/4/07, Terry Henderson <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 1/1/07, C.Wesbrooks <cwesbrooks at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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
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> > that it only has 256MB of ram, and have ordered 512MB for it. (update:
> > got it and installed it.)
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> Run firefox from terminal window and watch for errors in standard output
> when it crashes.
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> 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
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> See dmesg
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$ sudo 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.
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> > Thanks in Advance for any help or websites that will explain more.
> > Carlos
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If you want to try a different kernel

$ sudo apt-cache  search  kernel
   (find one you want to try &)
$ sudo apt-get install [kernel-of-your-choosing]


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