I have been busy this last week. My AspireOne is now using a home
partition. It's been a week and am still happy with the results. My
Toshiba? Not so much. After an upgrade the other day my system could
not boot in Kubuntu. Being ready to change it to have a home partition
I bit the bullet and decided to do the job. Because I was planning the
home partition and didn't want to loose any data from the partition with
Kubuntu on it I chose to wipe out a couple of distros I was ready to
loose anyhow giving me plenty of room on the hard drive for a good home
partition. So at this time I have two installs of Kubuntu 10.10 and had
nothing but trouble with the new install.

For no other reason than trouble shooting on boot up I did a memory test
and found one of the simm cards had failed. Kind of like having a
hardware worm if you will. Anyhow after finding the problem and removing
the bad simm the original Kubuntu partition would boot the way it had
before.

Problem:

Knowing that some of the upgrades may be corrupt. I am wondering what I
might do to fix or check it. I have no idea when the memory went bad. I
am hoping it died when stressed with a restart. This in turn would make
the upgrade good rather than faulty, but was wondering if anyone had any
idea how to test my system. I already know the new Kubuntu partition
and home partition are likely bad so will likely just flush and start
over using my old Kubuntu install that for the most part seems to be
working flawlessly.