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Load kernel and boot your system with GRUB2

I installed a new verison of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx the other day on a brand new formatted hard drive.  Installation went smoothly as you’d expect, but when I rebooted the server I was stuck on GRUB menu (my worst nightmare).  The server just wouldn’t load the operating system and typing ‘boot’ in GRUB gave me [...]

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Adding a startup script on Ubuntu server

This is a useful tip for my reference.  I’ve been creating some startup scripts on my Ubuntu server lately and her are a couple of steps required to get this working. Write your startup script and place it in /etc/init.d/ directory. Let’s say you called your startup script – myScript.  You then install your script [...]

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