Posts: 80
kwstas
Joined: 14 Feb 2011
#1
the system crushes occasionaly after the boot. the mouse pointer hardly moves but buttons don't work as well as the keyboard.
it crushed also when i was dragging-moving the"rox-term" window.

sometimes when i open an application it stays minimized on the tray and it can't raise by just clicking on the tab, i have to maximize it and then resize it.

i hope there will be an easy solution since i've been having a lot of problems until now.
i have reinstalled antix from a verified cd.

edit: it seems that when i boot in icewm, it's perfect...
Posts: 80
kwstas
Joined: 14 Feb 2011
#2
thank god i got a message from the grub while booting!
at least now i have something to look for.
it was an"error 18" something about cylinder etc. after some googling i found out that the problem must be the new 170g hdd i had installed.
in the bios it shows 137g or something! it's a limitation of bios.
a possible solution would be to just flash it with a new firmware but i'll try to just split the hdd with"gparted"
do you guys have any idea about it?
Posts: 75
tradetaxfree
Joined: 18 Jan 2012
#3
If your Linux installation is towards the end of your Hard Disk the easiest way to fix the limitations of legacy GRUB is to install GRUB2

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apt-get install grub2
Posts: 80
kwstas
Joined: 14 Feb 2011
#4
thanks! i hope you had told me earlier because i have re-pertitioned the hdd and placed everything in the first 100g part.
in the new installation i couldn't install the grub and after i booted i got the message"error 15" because it wasn't installed.
i used the livecd again to fix grub but it wouldn't do any good either so i just reinstalled only the /root partition and the installation went perfect untill the end!
i hadn't have much time untill now to say if everything works fine
but i would like to know what's the difference of grub and grub2 so maybe i can install it just in case...
Posts: 75
tradetaxfree
Joined: 18 Jan 2012
#5
If you run a few different kernels (such as the
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url was:"http://liquorix.net/"
linktext was:"Liquorix Kernel"
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) & the MEPIS Kernel which come with Antix then GRUB2 is helpful as it automatically detects each kernel & creates your Boot Menu entries. It also detects Windows installations (if you dual boot) & adds a menu entry.

When you first install GRUB2 it will recommend you"chainload" your existing /boot/grub/menu.lst as a safe way to boot. After you have booted once & confirmed everything is ok you can reinstall GRUB2 to the MBR (without chainloading) by:

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grub-install /dev/sdx
update-grub
(where sdx is the letter that represents your disk drive)

If you install GRUB2 a simple way to set the background image for the Boot Menu is to copy a jpeg / png image into /boot/grub & run:

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update-grub