linuseless
February 16th, 2010, 12:48 AM
Self confessed non-geek, trying to breathe life into old laptop before scrapping it.
Have installed Ubuntu 9.10 from disk supplied with a LINUX magazine. Checked disk, no errors. Tried OS from disk, ran OK albeit slowly, liked the look so installed over windows XP on IBM Thinkpad R40e (2.4gh, 384RAM, 30gbHD). All well, watched all the files loading, almost an hour, until reboot, when presented with option screen:
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GN GRUB version 1.97~beta4
Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic
Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)
memory test (memtest86+)
memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)
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regardless of which option selected, hitting enter gives the following :
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error: no such device: efbd0088-1bbb5-4911-ba50-070f27961c57
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hitting enter reverts to the former screen; every option taken sends me in circles.
Boots OKagain from CD for trial version.
Anything obvious (to ubuntu people) that I have missed?
Thanks in advance.
:confused:
Have installed Ubuntu 9.10 from disk supplied with a LINUX magazine. Checked disk, no errors. Tried OS from disk, ran OK albeit slowly, liked the look so installed over windows XP on IBM Thinkpad R40e (2.4gh, 384RAM, 30gbHD). All well, watched all the files loading, almost an hour, until reboot, when presented with option screen:
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GN GRUB version 1.97~beta4
Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic
Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)
memory test (memtest86+)
memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)
----------------------------------------------
regardless of which option selected, hitting enter gives the following :
----------------------------------------------
error: no such device: efbd0088-1bbb5-4911-ba50-070f27961c57
----------------------------------------------
hitting enter reverts to the former screen; every option taken sends me in circles.
Boots OKagain from CD for trial version.
Anything obvious (to ubuntu people) that I have missed?
Thanks in advance.
:confused: