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    [ubuntu] Re: can not login to ubuntu

    whoops sorry somehow I missed those posts this o/s browser combination was kind of jumpy in rendering the group.
    Kevin
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    [ubuntu] Re: can not login to ubuntu

    I the muddiness came from you referring to the boot-loader menu as a DOS prompt in your initial post.Most dual-boot or multiboot systems display this boot-loader menu at startup.
    Are you able to...
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    [ubuntu] Re: can not login to ubuntu

    I think your question is how to run "terminal" from the cd. From the cd select try linux which will start a live environment which only lives in your ram unless you have it save some persistent...
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    Well I am about ready to mark the thread solved but I have a couple questions. I was able to get the thing booting in ahci instead of raid but the problem turned out was it must have been installed...
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    It is booting fine. ;) I believe all my old Ubuntu versions have been formatted so the only one I am booting is partition 7 on sdb not the other 12.04 partition 4 on sda. I think we discussed what...
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    Sorry for the long post just looking to see if I need any further modification to grub. I think both the grub 2 and the windows 7 bootloader are on the terabyte drive sdb if thats what boot repair...
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    What a gem what a gem what a gem Happy Thanksgiving. I did apply the default repairs from boot repair it did say the mbr was quite far from sda where the new install lives.

    Ubuntu Pastebin...
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    Or maybe I just need to remove some meta data per presence thread.
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    So use boot repair to set the grub to sdb and install the windows to sda?Why have the o/s on one drive and the bootloader on the smaller sda drive? I think my bios just boots from drive [name] not...
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    Yes the system works great from sdb, I have to hold down the esc key everytime I boot however. With windows thats more than weekly:(.
    I can't see how the sata mode could change from acpi to raid....
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    Here is the boot info report link.
    http://paste.ubuntu.com/1367672/
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    eew
    Now after I changed sata mode to acpi the win 7 install will not boot. It tries a repair boot but the install hangs once I esc to select the drive and then from grub sdb1. So I changed back to...
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    Intel® Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz × 2
    64-bit
    so I think were okay its been running win7 64 and ubuntu 10.04 64 bit
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    So did check the BIOS settings and at some point RAID was selected as the mode for the two drives. I set it to AHCI (?) as even I know IDE isn't right. It sounds like I need to erase meta data and...
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    Do I want the ubuntuSecure remix or boot repair disk. Or the second option to go from terminal from the live cd environment?
    In boot menu from bios I have a raid 1 and 0 HDD, but in setup there is...
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    Wow give me a little time to digest what I can do. I know the system is from 2004 so it does not have Intel SRT. I will have a look in bios in a few minutes as I recall I activated some kind of Intel...
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    I booted from the bios but now it says I have a raid system in bios. At least I know the data is accessible. It would not boot from the 0 drive grub returns error 15. From the 1 drive which is the...
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ SUDO FDISK -LU
    SUDO: command not found
    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu

    Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168...
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    I went to the virtual console cntrl+alt+F1 so I will get back to the graphical interface using alt+F7 and cntrl+T. I would rather not try to figure out how to email the output from the command or...
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    how can I run the terminal from the live cd for ubuntu 12.04
    Kevin
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    Re: Install issues 12.04

    I will hand copy the output from
    sudo fdisk -lu

    Not sure how to run the live disk as I downloaded the install disk. It doesn't explictly say live disk but I guess its just the try ubuntu choice....
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    Install issues 12.04

    I am in a similar fix trying to install ubuntu 12.04 but now getting error 55. Should I go with the live disk on my install disk in order to run the above file from the former case? Not the lilo...
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    [SOLVED] Re: md5 hash not agreeing

    Thanks for the information I guess they hadn't updated the page. Always helps to look a little closer at the version.
    :kihei
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    [SOLVED] md5 hash not agreeing

    I downloaded the latest releases today 12.04 LTS but both times I manually md5'd from terminal it returned hashes that are not on Ubunutu's list for amd64 bit.

    kevin@kevin-desktop:~/Downloads$...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Unable to update my login password

    Thanks so much I knew there was a step I was missing.
    Kevin
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