[ale] Ubuntu driving me crazy (14.04)

[Jim Kinney]

Run memtest on the box for hours (let it complete) to see if there's an
issue. I'm not an Ubuntu person but I know it's supposed to installed
far easier/better than that.
Try a different distro to see if it's hitting an obscure hardware
issue. Try a fedora install to see if it also fails. Also try a live CD
of some type to see how it runs.
Firefox is the most complete, open-source license browser that mostly
does evereything it's supposed to. The most recent 40.0 release is very
unstable and I suspect it will be upgraded very soon.
There are a bunch of browsers to try. I switched to icecat ( a firefox
rebuild from gnu) while firefox is being flaky.
On Fri, 2015-08-21 at 12:30 -0400, John Caruso wrote:
> I have installed it 6 or 7 times and never was grub installed. I
> finally installed boot-repair and it allowed grub to install. It
> refused to install on any partition I picked
> 
> However when grub comes up it has Ubuntu at the top and if that is
> selected the screen goes black and nothing happens. I took the option
> list to boot the linux kernel 3.0***** and that seemed to work until
> I tried Firefox today after having it work and the screen filled with
> gibberish. 
> Is there a better browser for Linux?
> 
> My file system is:
> 
> /dev/sda
> /dev/sda    ntfs  320071 Mb   unknown
> /dev/sdb
> /def/sdb1 ntfs Win 7 loader
> /dev/sdb2 ntfs Win7 loader
> free 340791 mb
> 
> In the normal install I could not load the bootloader to /dev/sda but
> boot-repair allowed that. At one point I was told that I had an
> invalid copy of Ubuntu. 
> 
> I would really prefer to use Ubuntu but it is becoming like driving
> spikes under my fingernails. 
> 
> Sorry if this is to long.
> John Caruso
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