[ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..

[Bob Clough]

When you get to that screen, dont tick anything, just click forward.
Grub is installed in the EFI partition on your pendrive, so you dont
want to mess with it.

Though the update has stopped gdm starting on boot!  Anyone know where
the config file for that is stored on 9.10?  I was assuming init.d/
but it isnt there!

On 21 April 2010 22:04, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 21 April 2010 21:31, Chris Rowson <christopherrowson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> installing the updates, it is now asking me which partitions to
>>> install grub on, with a choice of /dev/sda and /dev/mmcblk0 and I
>>> don't know which (or both) to select.  Are those the two partitions on
>>> the stick or is one the internal flash in the joggler?
>>>
>> </snip>
>>
>> Hi Colin,
>>
>> /dev/mmcblk0 refers tonthe internal memory. I wouldn't stick grub there
>> because it'll interfere with the default install.
>>
>> The internal mmc looks like this in fdisk
>>
>>          Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
>>  /dev/mmcblk0p1   *           1        1954       62520  ef EFI
>> (FAT-12/16/32)
>>  /dev/mmcblk0p2            1955        9768      250048  83 Linux
>>
>>  /dev/mmcblk0p3            9769       17582      250048  83 Linux
>>  /dev/mmcblk0p4           17583       31376      441408  83 Linux
>>
>
> OK, thanks
>
> In fact I was stuck anyway, I had been moving my keyboard and mouse
> between the joggler and my pc as the joggler updated, and having got
> to the screen asking where it should install grub it would not
> recognise the keyboard again.
> Reading the latest stuff on the wiki I think I will just start again
> with the latest image there.   At least that is no big deal.
>
> Colin
>
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