After a great month of smooth running, it happened again. Wubi is a great way to install Ubuntu if you would like to keep your Windows partition intact, but this seems to happen to me a lot. Basically, you install it. It works lovely. You install updates, including a grub update at some point. Then, next time you try to boot into Ubuntu, grub can’t find the menu, and you are left at a grub prompt.

In order to boot into Ubuntu, you will need to enter the following into the grub prompt (press the tab key to auto fill or see which kernel versions are available):

Find/set the kernel image:

Set initrd:

Then boot:

It’s great that you can get back into Ubuntu, but now you will have the same problem every time you boot your computer. In order to fix this, you need to make sure grub is installed correctly. It was for me, but just in case, you can just reinstall it through Synaptic Package Manager (System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager. Do a search for “grub”). I did this, but I don’t think it was necessary. After that, I simply updated the grub menu.

I’ve booted into Ubuntu several times since this procedure with no problems. Here is another link that was helpful for me.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2

All five of these browsers tend to do a lot of boasting (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome), but how can you know which one really is the best, or the fastest? Thorough testing, as is often done by Tom’s Hardware, can be a valuable source of information. Personally, I tend to alternate between Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. I love Firefox for its stability, support, and plugins; Chrome for its simplicity and speed; and Opera for its speed and its unique set of features. I really don’t care about Internet Explorer or Safari. I’ve tried both on numerous occasions and have nothing positive to say about either one.

For detailed results of Tom’s Hardware set of tests, check out the full article.

I’ve heard the real end of the Mayan calender is something closer to 2208, and that 2012 was just a miscalculation. Sad, the end of the world is not nigh.