[GRLUG] Ubuntu, Grub :"No filesystem found: Grub Rescue>"

[Steve Romanow]

On 8/6/2010 9:10 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:00 AM,<bcreswel at morrison-ind.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Well, the update.
>>
>> Went cheap, bought the $80 SSD.
>>
>> Started w/ openSUSE,  which seemed to work fine on gnome live, and first
>> run, but after that I was no longer able to connect wirelessly.
>>
>> Not really being one to enjoy messing around with OS stuff - I want it to
>> "just work", I went back to Ubuntu.
>>
>> Guess what? Two crashes in the last two days. Not the fatal Grub Rescue,
>> just the "everything stopped" kind, where nothing responds except the power
>> button.
>>
>> I'm now wondering if I should point fingers at the atheros wireless?
>>
>> Is there some relatively simple crash diagnostics I can do?
>>      
> What I would do:
>
> * Check /var/log/syslog to see if anything shows up there just before
> the crash point.
> * Update video drivers. (I'm seeing a lot of X11 hangs on the
> open-source Radeon drivers right now.)
> * Install sshd and see if it still has network access after the hang,
> and, if so, try restarting X11.
>
>    
If you suspect the radeon driver, should he maybe try the vesa driver 
just to see if it comes up?

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