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This is bizarre! I found out it has to do with the BIOS having the Floppy Drive enabled! here is the link: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=128758&p=705348#p705348

Thanks for the Reply oldfred.

It is the older 40 wire cable. Would the 80 wire cable make that much of a difference???

I have made sure that the drive (the only one connected to the...

I folks. This is the first time I have run into this situation. I have a nice little system - a tad older, but run very well. It is an ASROCK MOBO that can run both IDE and SATA drives. To reduce...

I am still fairly new to the command line thing in Terminal. Could someone expand on the 'asterisk' for me please. Is it needed to make the recursive or archive copy capture ALL the directories?...

Sorry forgot the attachments.

I have never seen this before wit any previous versions of ubuntu - wondering if anyone else has seen it or can explain it.

The break down of the partition table is being viewed with Ranish ...

Ok, THIS I got to work for me - Hopefully it helps others as well.

First credit where credit is due - I got the help I was looking for here:

Changing / Modifying an NTFS partitions UUID using...

Ok, THIS I got to work for me - Hopefully it helps others as well.

First credit where credit is due - I got the help I was looking for here:

Changing / Modifying an NTFS partitions UUID using...

Ok, THIS I got to work for me - Hopefully it helps others as well.

First credit where credit is due - I got the help I was looking for here:

Changing / Modifying an NTFS partitions UUID using...

They are NTFS partition types ===> sda1, and sda2

sda3 where i installed linux was ext4 when this happened.

Because of the number of data loss issues that were 'implied' with regards to ext4, I...

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coffeecat, which would you recommend to shut down a frozen system?
Alt + SysRq + o

or would you start with something like:
Alt + SysRq + f

remember we can's "see" anything on the...

What Kind of machine was it? Was it using optimus technology (integrated and dedicated video cards)?

Where you using ext4 as the file extension on the Linux installation?




Could the...

No, I don't think so. I installed the [Recommended] drivers and then "Restarted" the computer. So I think they would have been 'unmounted'.

Grub menu came up, I selected Ubuntu, and it froze...

No I have not - I just re-imaged the partitions and everything was fine. There definitely was something to do with the "Hard Shutdown" that messed those other partitions up.


I'll digress a...

Thanks, but I didn't loose anything - I had the images, and they were just clean installs. I am just testing Ubuntu 10.04.1 as it sounds like a lot of people have has stability issues. But it...

There was no power failure. I was trying to install a recommened graphics driver.

.... unless the hard shutdown can affect the disk controller as you had mentioned -- I don''t know what I am...

I do this a lot. I am 100% sure.



I imaged the OS to both partitions, and then changed the UUID of the 2nd Partiton so that Grub2 wouldn't get confused, and could Identify them via their...

Is this possible with a hard shut down?

I had everything backed up and imaged, so recovery was very easy . . . here is what happened:

sda1 was an NTFS partition with windows 7 installed.
sda2...

Well I finally had an opportunity to sit down and tinker a little with this again.

The Code that I used in terminal was:


sudo dd if=/dev/urandom bs=80 count=1 | xxd -l 80 -c 8 | tail -1 | xxd...

Thanks for that - I have seen the link before.

It seems odd to me however that within the grub.cfg file that they are still using:

set root=(hd0,10)

Considering what was discussed above...

Thanks!

I love tinkering with Ubuntu and Grub / Grub2. I doing so I seem to remember with earlier distributions of Ubutnu that we'd install Grub to ..... hd0 .... I think it was.

Now I noticed that when...

Forgive me for not reading the 100+ pages on this thread to try and find the answer.

I am about to dual boot one of my machines and use Grub2 that comes with the 10.04.1 LTS 64 bit install.
...

what does the "gk" part or the gksudo stand for or do?

Should one maybe use it all the time instead of "sudo gedit /filename"?

Is there a time and a place where we should use "sudo" instead of...

Because OBVIOUSLY there was room in YOUR POST for 'misinterpretation'.



Yeah, that part too was "bloody obvious", and counter productive.

For future reference when giving advice, most...