Grub2 – A beginners guide
Take a look at this post over at Ubuntu forums for a very comprehensive, yet easy to understand guide to Grub2. Noteworthy mentions are as follows: “At first boot, there will not be much difference in what the user sees on the boot menu. The one exception is a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10 with no other installed operating system. In this case, GRUB 2 will boot directly to the login prompt...
Read MoreUbuntu Karmic 9.10 and Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P – Black screen
After any install of Karmic, 9.10 the new GRUB 2 bootloader will not start the generic kernel. On first reboot after a fresh install, when you select the standard boot image you are left with a black screen, and possibly a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner. To boot anything functional I was forced to start in rescue mode, resume normal boot, login as my user, then run startx to...
Read MoreCannot connect to MySQL: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server
I ran into a problem on a client site running cPanel. One our our web apps was spitting out the following error: 12Script Error Cannot connect to MySQL: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client A quick Google search returned the fix : http://geekswithblogs.net/TimH/archive/2005/10/31/58591.aspx From inside MYSQL, Run the following on...
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