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how do I rescue Grub?

wellmessedup — Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:02 pm

Author: wellmessedup

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:02 pm

My sincere thanks to you both for your information.

I have been able to revert to Lucid and all is well with the world.

I have not been deterred from attempting to look at other OS and would ask if I wish to remove them from my system would I be right in applying this proceedure before I delete anything to ensure a safe return to the original OS.

Your conformation would be appreciated

A fifth of children have never received a letter

LeeNukes — Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:10 pm

Author: LeeNukes

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:10 pm

jamie_tickner wrote:

my gf is 5years my junior and she doesn't think she has ever received a letter either except in official circumstances (dvla, banks etc)

Then why don't you post her one?

Who is The One?

catgate — Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:37 pm

Author: catgate

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:37 pm

jamie_tickner wrote:

chuck norris!!

Where too?
And what if he lands on his head?

I am finally employed again

Rhakios — Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:14 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:14 pm

nelz wrote:

There was a spam posted that resurrected the thread.

I thought it looked a bit odd when I saw it, but not especially spammy, did it change after 7:00am?

Android Netbooks and Pads

Rhakios — Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:10 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:10 pm

nelz wrote:

The 10" model is probably too bulky to carry around easily, the 7" looks a better bet, but it's only $24 less!

The problem for me with the 7" model would be the 800x480 resolution. Having owned two Nokia N8x0 devices and a few Netbooks, the only viable resolution for me would be at least 1024x600 and I'd prefer a few more pixels than that really.

VGA not supported upon Install

PCNetSpec — Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:37 pm

Author: PCNetSpec

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:37 pm

Is this a kernel mode setting (KMS) problem again?

Have you tried putting nomodeset in the kernel boot line in GRUB

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

or try the vga=xxx (where xxx is a vga mode) option, there is a list of common vga modes here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions#Linux_video_mode_numbers

Network issue

greg.d — Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:00 pm

Author: greg.d

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:00 pm

Sound like the issue I had, Gigabyte GA-EX58-EXTREME and sometimes the 2 nics would just disappear completely. Not even seen in the bios.
For me it would usually happen after booting into OpenSUSE then rebooting for whatever reason and they would be gone. When they did disappear nothing but a complete power off would get them back. Haven't seen it for a long time though, think it may have been a bios update that fixed it for me.

Anybody Totally Switch To Linux?

jamie_tickner — Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:40 am

Author: jamie_tickner

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:40 am

I have had exactly a year today of not using windows except when in work (my work machine is xp). I thought I would miss gaming but my snes and megadrive roms work fine.

I thought I would have problems with my iPod, gtkpod works fine.

Personally I think as a home user linux has come on a long way in terms of hardware support so I think a big thank you is in order to those who code their distros and kernel parts to make it work with hardware without any support from the manufacturers!!

Enjoying Ubuntu Netbook Edition!

jamie_tickner — Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:35 am

Author: jamie_tickner

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:35 am

I run UNE 10.04 on my acer netbook and really enjoy using it too!

I recommend getting swiftfox as your default web browser.

LXF135 - Firefox vs Chrome

leke — Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:36 pm

Author: leke

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:36 pm

PCNetSpec wrote:

Code:

google-chrome --enable-internal-flash

But you can easily put this in the Command: line of the launcher.

The pluggin is still crashing after putting the above in with the launcher.

ssh_config or sshd_config?

ajgreeny — Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:52 pm

Author: ajgreeny

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:52 pm

Great stuff, nelz.

Thank you so much for the direct answer, which seemed to be what everyone was saying but which I still had not got round to testing for myself.

Hauppauge WinTv-Nove-HD-S2 pci card

PCNetSpec — Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:51 pm

Author: PCNetSpec

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:51 pm

RedWillow wrote:

Anyway, you know much more about this than I do, so over to you...

Heh... I wouldn't go that far, we ended up at the same places by different routes, and I make no claims to having come across this issue previously

[EDIT]
Actually that link has more info than I'd found

Init scripts and Bash

wyliecoyoteuk — Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:13 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:13 pm

I thought Ubuntu used Upstart jobs instead of init scripts?

I`m on holiday...

1slipperyfish — Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:47 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:47 pm

well you would i've been at work all bankholiday weekend
paul