[Wolves] I installed kubuntu recently BUT.............

[Bobby Singh]

Hello,

There is lots of info when entering the 'dmesg | less
less /var/log/messages' command (if i did paste it
here it would take up pages).
Basically my HD map (80gb maxtor)

#1 XP
#5 FAT32
#6 swap
#4 mandrake
#3 kubuntu

Would Kubuntu have issues of multibooting.  Maybe i
have done this wrong.  Because rather than using the
kubuntu MBR i did it myself in Mandrake using GRUB.
Simply because when i but on the kubuntu/ubuntu MBR i
lost all my partitions (mandrake resuce or xp command
or adjusting grub in ubuntu did'nt save me).

You have /lib kernal modules (2.6....) during start up
of Kubunt.

Thanks

Bob
less /var/log/kern.log
--- Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Bobby Singh <bs_wm at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > I will have a go at that 'Ping command' soon and
> let
> > people know how i get on.
> > If that don't work i may try downloading drivers
> for
> > my sound card (realteak) and ethernet (VIA Rhine)
> > for
> > internet.
> 
> Normally with Linux you don't have to download any
> drivers, if they work then they are built into the
> kernel. I am pretty certain that your ethernet card
> and sound card are supported. I have a Realtek card
> (maybe a different model) and it works, though you
> may
> have an unsupported variant. I am pretty certain
> that
> Via Rhine cards are supported too.
> 
> > I use Mandrake mainly and it autoconfigs
> > everything and assumed so would Kubuntu.
> > (on booting kubuntu it does complain about unable
> to
> > load '/lib' files 'don't exsist').
> 
> Ubuntu and Kubuntu should automatically detect all
> supported hardware but...
> 
> To me, that sounds really bad, but I might be wrong.
> Your kernel modules live under /lib, usually in
> /lib/modules/<kernel-name>/kernel/ (in Ubuntu at
> least) so this might be why you're having problems.
> 
> I don't know why this might have happened. It
> shouldn't. Maybe a dying hard disk but you would get
> other more worrying messages to do with your hard
> disks. If you understand Linux disk naming
> conventions
> you will know what to look for, if you don't, either
> ask or google for it. It's relatively easy. /dev/hda
> is your primary master hard disk on an normal ATA
> IDE
> controller /dev/hda1 is the first partition on that
> disk, /dev/hdb2 is the second partition on the
> primary
> slave disk and so on. For SCSI, serial ATA and USB
> drives, change the 'h' for an 's'.
> 
> Look for errors about /dev/hdX where X is the name
> of
> your disk a, b, c, d or whatever. Look in the
> following files using the following commands on the
> command line:
> 
> dmesg | less
> less /var/log/messages
> less /var/log/kern.log
> 
> You can filter this for your hard disk name by using
> grep and your hard disk name, if your disk is
> /dev/hdb
> (primary slave), add | grep /dev/hdb to the end of
> each of the above like so:
> 
> less /var/log/messages | grep /dev/hdb
> 
> but have a look at them unfiltered too so you can
> also
> look for more about the /lib errors.
> 
> This may also have been caused by an incomplete
> installation or bad install media, but if it were a
> bad CD then I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have
> installed
> the rest of the system.
> 
> Can you paste here a sample of the lib errors and
> any
> other errors that look interesting (such as disk
> errors). It may help us diagnose whats wrong.
> 
> It may also be worth your while using google to
> search
> for information on your errors if any. Just paste
> what
> looks like the important bit into google. Thats all
> I'll be doing.
> 
> HTH
> 
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