Search:

Just for the record. There was indeed a problem. I noticed that "repeat keys" wasn't working, and found this thread on askubuntu. Now, weird characters have disappeared, and repeat keys work.

Now, that's strange. After a reboot, the behaviour has changed slightly.

Now, I still see the weird character when the dead key is pressed, but when I press the "real" letter, it substitutes the...

Hello,

I just upgraded to 17.10, and everything went fine, except for a weird behavior I have just observed. When I press a dead key (for an accent), I get a strange character instead. If I'm...

Thanks a lot!

I can confirm that the key is setting a supervisor password at the BIOS. I never disabled Secure Boot.

As a matter of fact, boot-repair did warn that you had to set some files as...

Hello,

I have an Acer Swift 3, with dual boot Windows-Linux. After a BIOS update, I haven't been able to boot back into Linux. I have run boot-repair (last version) from the boot-repair rescue...

I only have one hard disk. When I started with a USB disk plugged in, this was labeled as hd0, and the system disk was hd1. If I didn't plug the USB disk, I only had hd0. Hence the mismatch....

Bump!

I have been looking at the partitions in the hard disk, and one of them shows promise:


ls (hd0,gpt2)/efi/ubuntu
./ ../ grubx64.efi shimx64.efi MokManager.efi grub.cfg


But I don't...

Hello, everybody,

I have been moving and resizing partitions with gparted, but I forgot to run update-grub after that. Now, the system boots to a grub2 command line (version 2.02-beta2-9ubuntu1.3,...

OK, fixed. Apparently, the encrypted devices in /proc/mounts don't get mounted from fstab. I commented out the two lines with my username (/home/joanc) and left just the /dev/sda8 for /home.

Now,...

Hello,

I was trying to setup a Samba share and I thought mountmanager would help. Boy, was I wrong. It didn't work (maybe because I didn't have cifs-utils installed, I don't know or care too much,...

That did the trick!!!

Thanks a lot

I can access data just fine. The only thing I can't do is to add a partition...

I've tried to write from Fixparts, and it's still the same.

BTW, parted's output is:


$ sudo parted /dev/sdb...

Oooops!!!!
My mistake. I had tried the disk on another system, where it was /dev/sdc. It's /dev/sdb now, of course, thanks for pointing it out!. This the *real* output of fixparts


FixParts...

I've tried fixparts on it, and I get the following:


$ sudo fixparts /dev/sdc
FixParts 0.8.4

Loading MBR data from /dev/sdc
Problem opening /dev/sdc for reading! Error is 2.
The specified...

I have an external USB disk, with one ext4 partition; the rest is unassigned. I can mount the partition just fine. Now, I want to create a second partition with the rest of the disk. So I fire up...

I'm not sure whether it's the hard disk or the controller that has problems. It's too much of a coincidence for the two disks to fail at the same time!
Anyway, when I try to boot now, I get the...

I'm stuck trying to recover my computer, please help!

My system used to have two disks: an older IDE disk, with Windows XP and an old Ubuntu installation, and a newer SATA disk, with a current...

I don't think it was RAID; I had disabled Intel RST and removed the RAID metadata before.

Finally, the winning stroke was Boot-Repair. I booted into the Live CD, and, instead of reinstalling for...

I had tried to do it by reinstalling Kubuntu again and again, to no avail.

Boot-repair did it. I just started the Live CD, apt-got boot-repair, ran, and it works. Thanks!

I have just installed Kubuntu in an HP netbook (details in this thread). The root wil be in the SSD (/dev/sdb), and /home and swap in the HDD (/dev/sda). Windows 7 is also there.

After a clean...

I took up the installation again yesterday, and it's still a work in progress. I think my experience may be useful to someone else, so I'm going to give you an update:

I have to say that this...

After some more research, it *is* using Intel RST, with RAID and everything. This link explains the setup. The part of the SSD used for raid doesn't show as a partition, but the Intel RST driver is...

I am attaching two screenshots of how Gparted 1.16.1.1 sees both disks. I see no sign of RAID, here. The warning sign on sdb (the SSD) is because Gparted doesn't recognize the partition type...

Good point on the four partition problem. I have found this posting that gives instructions on deleting the HP_TOOLS primary partition, and then put it back as a logical partition.

I have already...

Hi,

I just bought an HP envy 6-1050ss. It's got a 500 GB disk + a 32 GB SSD. It comes with Windows 7 preinstalled (not 8, yay!), and I intend to keep it as a dual-boot, although my primary OS will...