yurad
April 5th, 2009, 11:14 PM
I am looking for the option to boot time to time Linux on my laptop. The best solution today would be the full Linux installation on flash drive, but so far I don't find a way how to create it on my laptop. And I try to use Ubuntu 8.10 persistent USB startup disk. It looks very promising. I am able to install some programs, upgrade Firefox with extensions and change the desktop environment. Everything was fine until one day it stopped to boot.There was some error during the boot. I created again the persistent disk on the same flash drive. For few weeks everything worked fine. But now when Gnome is loading after boot I see the error message from Tomboy applet and on the top of first message I have the second message " Failed to initialize HAL". The keyboard and mouse are not responding. Ctrl-Alt-Del allows to restart. When I boot in safe mode I get the shell window. "startx" gives an error. When I try "dpkg-reconfigure hal" I am getting something like "/var/lib/dbus ext3-fs error (device loop1)" + a lot of additional information. (Also interesting, I cannot treat this message as stderror, I mean when I redirect ".... 2> file_name" I still see the message on the screen and not in the file).
Could somebody advice what's going on with my persistent disks? Is it possible there is a hardware glitch on my flash drive? Or is it an Ubuntu glitch with persistence of startup disk when I change the stuff on it? BTW, what should I expect from persistent USB startup disk? And how reliable should it be?
Could somebody advice what's going on with my persistent disks? Is it possible there is a hardware glitch on my flash drive? Or is it an Ubuntu glitch with persistence of startup disk when I change the stuff on it? BTW, what should I expect from persistent USB startup disk? And how reliable should it be?