Ubuntu 8.10 upgrade to 9.04 (Grub and ATI Issues)

Well I took the plunge this weekend and upgraded my ubuntu 8.10 laptop and ubuntu 8.04 desktop to ubuntu 9.04 and I ran into two big problems.  First, my grub menu.lst wasn’t updated correctly and second my ATI video drivers weren’t working after the upgrade.   I’ll paint a little picture of my situation just so that things all make sense.  I’ve did not upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 on my desktop due to VPN PPTP issues that 8.10 was having and I really needed the VPN capability but that’s all that was stopping me at the time.  I did not need the VPN functionality on my laptop so I went ahead and upgraded that machine.

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