Blunder of the day
December 20th, 2007Well this blunder is not something for which I have to pay heavily, its just that I tried to Install Xubuntu on my system when I had Ubuntu Gutsy and Windows XP already installed. I made one more partition to make place for Xubuntu Feisty. After installing I was shocked to find Ubuntu missing from the GRUB menu. After investigation I found that the new installation has overwritten the kernel image of Gutsy in the boot partition. I didnt even have a backup of it 
I was very excited to install one more OS as I didnt wanted myself to get stuck on and only Linux-Ubuntu. Here are some snaps which I took during installation.
I had tried hard to recover this beautiful and sexy OS -Ubuntu Gutsy. One of my friend -Ankur Srivastava sent me the kernel image of Gutsy from his computer. Now I can see the boot screen but no booting :P I cant reinstall original Gutsy because I have installed a lot of applications and have neatly configured it. Now I dont even want to upgrade.
Finally I am going to recover Gutsy tomorrow, will reinstall Gutsy over Xubuntu, copy the kernel image back to the original installation and if successful, will reinstall xubuntu back over the newly installed Ubuntu. May God be with me!!
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:31 pm
so did it work?????
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Am not getting time to do so. Am on Social Suty for last 2 days as mentioned above and there are some power problems here in my hometown. Installing completely will require some 45 mins for sure as I have 512MB of RAM and my laptop gives only 1 hour backup on battery.
I shall do it today evening when I can get the genset running even if the power fails…