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    [SOLVED] stuck at grub rescue :-(

    Hello

    I was trying to create a bootable USB of mint and obviously went about it completely the wrong way. When I switched my box back on I was presented with device not found GRUB RESCUE>
    I have...
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    [ubuntu] Re: iplayer filled with treacle

    erm...
    ...bump?
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    [ubuntu] iplayer filled with treacle

    I'm a bit confused and would value some input,

    Laptop:
    Compaq nx9005
    LinuxMint (helena) Live CD
    AMD Athlon XP2400+ 1.8GHz (I think)
    433MB Ram
    Wireless network connection: 54Mb/s (48%)...
  4. [ubuntu] Re: Fresh Install + Dual Boot + Multiple Drives = Mild Panic

    Thanks very much earthpigg, I set this up a little while ago and all is working very well.
  5. [SOLVED] Re: GRUB loading, or not it would seem

    Thanks very much, that was all very simple and painless.

    Reinstalled Grub and everything is working fine.

    Now I can go out and enjoy the sunshine :-)
  6. [SOLVED] Re: GRUB loading, or not it would seem

    I have two drives, output of fdisk:

    Disk /dev/sda: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sda1 * 1 6127 49215096...
  7. [SOLVED] GRUB loading, or not it would seem

    I would really appreciate some help with this.

    I have a dual boot PC running Karmic and XP pro. Everything has been chugging along fine for several months but now it will not boot :-(

    I...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Partitioning Basic set up? Ext4?

    I had a very similar issue installing Karmic on my laptop. Had XP on it and it completely died on me. So figured I'd try out the new(ish) Ubuntu distro on it.

    Tried a couple of times to set up the...
  9. [all variants] Re: How do I find which distro I'm using?

    Hmm...

    Now that's just got me a bit confused, tried "uname -a" and the output produced was:

    Linux [my computers name] 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 21 23:43:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

    To...
  10. [all variants] Re: How do I find which distro I'm using?

    Thanks for the advice

    Under release in terminal, I'm getting Ubuntu 8.04.1 hardy as in system monitor. There is no About Ubuntu anywhere in my menu system but there is About Xfce and when I...
  11. [all variants] How do I find which distro I'm using?

    Hello

    May sound like a bit of a silly question but I'm not sure which distro I'm using. The computer came to me with Linux preinstalled by a friend. Under system monitor it says Ubuntu release...
  12. [ubuntu] Fresh Install + Dual Boot + Multiple Drives = Mild Panic

    Hello

    I have been using Linux for a little while now, my friend gifted me a machine about a year and a half ago and it quickly became my favorite. It even sneaked onto my laptop in the form...
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