Thursday, May 28, 2009

Upgrade to Jaunty disables Restricted drivers, NVIDIA, ATI. X86-64

Hi, this is a little edit to the grub boot file as it appears that the 64bit version does not do it automatically, disabling restricted drivers amongst other things after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty X86-64, whatever flavour of window manager you use.

First in a terminal:
sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst.mybak
This will backup the current file in case it needs to be restored.
Then to open the file in an editor:
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Then change the relevant entries to reflect the upgraded system, similar to what I have done below. Please remember that the UUID's are unique and should not need to be changed in your own file, just past in the relevant information regarding the version and kernel.

## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=e300c18a-7bcc-416b-ab16-00d3585e2ccb ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=e300c18a-7bcc-416b-ab16-00d3585e2ccb ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic

title Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
Restart once you have done this and you should be able to boot into the new kernel and enable the restricted drivers.

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