Howto downgrade ubuntu 9.10 karmic to legacy grub

My Asrock ION 330 hangs for a minute in the boot sequence with grub2.
Lets downgrade to Legacy.


sudo apt-get purge grub2 grub-pc
sudo rm /boot/grub/*

sudo apt-get install grub

sudo update-grub

sudo fdisk -l

sudo grub-install /dev/sdX

echo "grub hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections

Howto get automount and stuff working in 9.10 Karmic without gdm

When running the gnome desktop without gdm e.g. by startx things does not work as expected. E.g. if a usb disk is plugged in it is not mounted and the err "not authorized" is displayed.

I think the correct solution may be to include ck-launch-session in startx but I have not been able do do this. I still dont really understand exactly how the ubuntu startup scripts works.

EDIT: please note that this does not fix usb automount in xbmc.
The problem can instead be fixed by:

sudo apt-get install policykit-1 devicekit-power

sudo nano /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/custom-actions.pkla
add:

[Actions for xbmc user]
Identity=unix-user:xbmc
Action=org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.*;org.freedesktop.devicekit.power.*;org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.*;org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable;org.freedesktop.hal.device.volume
ResultActive=yes
ResultAny=auth_admin
ResultInactive=yes

xbmc 9.11 usb does not automount after gnome-core is installed

I have this very annoying probklem that I have not been able to solve. when I install gnome-core usb disks does not mount anymore. I get "not authorized".
Generally if I use gdm it works but if I use xbmc or startx it does not work.

I think the problem could be that the policykit is upgraded to polictkit-1 and any settings that are done for xbmc does not work anymore.

I have now found this: EDIT: This does not fix the usb mount problem. It fixes some other permission problems though. I have given up on xbmc and gnome for the moment. I use lxde with xfce and kde components instead.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=70394

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(sudo apt-get install policykit-1 devicekit-power)

sudo nano /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/custom-actions.pkla
add:

[Actions for xbmc user]
Identity=unix-user:xbmc
Action=org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.*;org.freedesktop.devicekit.power.*;org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.*;org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable;org.freedesktop.hal.device.volume
ResultActive=yes
ResultAny=auth_admin
ResultInactive=yes