[nzlug] Acer + Ubuntu: second look

[Robin Sheat]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 21:52:52 Simon Bridge wrote:
> Something to add to the list.
OK, although it's standard to all Ubuntu installs I've seen recently.

> Assuming the installer knew this was available - grub happens before the
> OEM configuration.
> Perhaps it is prudent to fully boot Windows when installing memory?
My guess it's their standard (albeit very unreliable, esp if the new chip 
appears at the top of RAM) test of it working: go in to windows and see if it 
sees the new RAM. Perhaps they were trying to do something similar. TBH, I 
have no idea how you'd do that through the GUI in Ubuntu. 8.04 doesn't seem 
to have a hardware listing app installed by default (of course, I'd use 'top' 
or similar if I wanted to do that)

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