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October 22nd, 2012, 01:46 AM
In response to an email from System76, I have attempted an upgrade to 12.10 from 12.04.
The chief reason for wanting this release is the promise of the built-in coolkey pkcs#11 support for my CAC card.
I downloaded the .iso and burned the image to a DVD, and the install completed, but now I only arrive at a grub rescue> prompt.
I have been trying to follow the instructions here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/142300/how-to-fix-error-unknown-filesystem-grub-rescue
I have located the ubuntu partition and found the grub .mod files and set the prefix to that directory (reading the link above will explain what that means)
but the bigger problem -- bigger than poking through and hoping to fix the grub menu manually -- is that the system keeps shutting off after x minutes (1, 10, a few).
Even rebooting to the LiveCD and choosing "Try Ubuntu" does the same thing. I can work for maybe a few minutes (like to read/post here), but it shuts off intermittently without warning.
I am reduced to using my wife's MACbook to post here with a duplicate account.
I have decided that I have made so many modifications to my system that I need to do a clean install, but I would really like to get into the system to save personal files to CD first.
Can you help me get back in to get ready for a new install?
Thanks,
Daniel
The chief reason for wanting this release is the promise of the built-in coolkey pkcs#11 support for my CAC card.
I downloaded the .iso and burned the image to a DVD, and the install completed, but now I only arrive at a grub rescue> prompt.
I have been trying to follow the instructions here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/142300/how-to-fix-error-unknown-filesystem-grub-rescue
I have located the ubuntu partition and found the grub .mod files and set the prefix to that directory (reading the link above will explain what that means)
but the bigger problem -- bigger than poking through and hoping to fix the grub menu manually -- is that the system keeps shutting off after x minutes (1, 10, a few).
Even rebooting to the LiveCD and choosing "Try Ubuntu" does the same thing. I can work for maybe a few minutes (like to read/post here), but it shuts off intermittently without warning.
I am reduced to using my wife's MACbook to post here with a duplicate account.
I have decided that I have made so many modifications to my system that I need to do a clean install, but I would really like to get into the system to save personal files to CD first.
Can you help me get back in to get ready for a new install?
Thanks,
Daniel