home partitions on raid 0 disks each. Installation gave me no problems but after rebooting the system shows "loading Gurb" puts a black screen and never goes beyond that point. I used Ubuntu 9.10 alternate installation disk
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Hi,
I too upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10 using wubi, the Windows ubuntu installer. Everything was fine, and I even admired the beautiful desktop, added KDE. I was very impressed until came the time to reboot. Grub hung. I entered the console and tried to repair: To no avail.
I reinstalled Ubuntu/Gnome without installing KDE. All went fine until the time to reboot. It hung again. After several trials, I decided to go back to Ubuntu 9.04.
From what I could gather on the Internet, it has to do with the new type of file system ext4. If only I had the choice to use it or not.
Since I was using wubi and was not offered the choice to install the ext4 file system, I do not know whether that choice is offered on a full scale installation without wubi. You might try to find out if you can customize the installation process and not select the ext4 file system, if possible.
One remark concerning the amount of swap space you are setting aside. In my opinion that's too much: I have a 2GB RAM, about 300MB swap space, and each time I monitor swap usage I find it very low to nil.
Concerning Ubuntu 9.10, I will wait until the bug(?) is fixed before upgrading. Good luck to you
I hope it helps
Thank you for using FixYa.
UPDATE. I reinstalled Ubuntu 9.10 using the Windows Ubuntu Installer (wubi) and right away installed the latest updates, among which were updates for Grub2. I have rebooted close a dozen time and I have not had any problems.