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Unfortunately, this being an old computer, I don't have a repair disk. Also, the CD drive on this computer is screwed up, so I can't use a disk, anyway. I can't boot into a live cd, or I would have...

It's been well over a year since I turned this computer on. It has Windows 7 and a borked Ubuntu partition (I upgraded without doing a clean install).

When I turn on the computer, I get "error:...

Long story short, I'm running 14.04 and trying my best to pretend Unity didn't happen. I'm not saying that it's not a lovely interface, but it doesn't do what I want it to do, which is, essentially,...

I really hope that someone can help me, because I have one desktop which I can't boot and only this old netbook to figure out why.

I have Windows 7 and some flavor of Ubuntu on the desktop, but I...

I appreciate the help, but neither of your weapons work for me. My computer would not recognize a CD and let me boot from it--I tried with an old 11.4 disc I still had. My ubuntu won't load, and I...

I immediately get the error. There no longer is a loading at all. I see anything loading other than the error.

And how do I boot from a CD while my computer is giving me this error message? It fails to respond to most linux and even DOS commands.

I don't have a live CD. IfIget one, how will I know which partition is bad? I also would like to get back into Windows 7.

I am painfully typing this on my PS3, for the record.

I knocked my computer over and had to restart it. I get the above error with a "grub rescue" command prompt.

All of the solutions I've...

Thanks very much for the advice. I don't seem to have any spare DVDs lying around, but I can pick one up tonight and work from that.

I broke ubuntu trying to upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10. I figured nothing could be worse than 12.04, but I wasn't reckoning with the upgrade failing at the very last step (restarting the computer) and...

I'm following the instructions here to install whatever my wireless card needs to function. The latest kernel build in which I can get both my wireless and my nvidia graphics card to work ends in...

So, I bought a new computer and promptly installed Lucid. Unfortunately, the wireless driver packaged with it doesn't actually work. I did find a work-around, which included downloading a different...

Well, yes, it's a new mouse--it's a completely new computer!

Back when I first started using Ubuntu, I think I remember having to install Compiz myself. I'm not sure if I did this time. If...

I'm not even sure I'm posting this in the best sub-forum, but I'm so frazzled after messing around with my Compiz settings, trying desperately to enable on my new computer what I used to have on my...

I'm trying to put an ubuntu install on my new computer, but not having much luck. I downloaded the 64 bit version of 11.10, burned it onto a CD, inserted the CD, and rebooted.

I get a screen with...

Looks like my desire to blame my stupid university is going to be thwarted. Turns out, it's a bug in WICD combined with the upgrades reinstalling network manager and purge failing to actually, like,...

Thanks for the help with the panels. It didn't even occur to me to ask whether they deliberately made the panels a fresh new mandatory form of stupid for the lucid release. I can get that under...

I have an Acer Aspire One that's been working great with Ubuntu since I got it, but I somehow never got around to updating it beyond Jaunty. I finally went all the way up to Lucid, and... bam.
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Thanks for all of the advice. I know just enough about this get myself in trouble.

I'm so busy with grad school that the idea of making any serious changes to my computer right now makes me want...

Is running Lucid with a different kernel as simple as selecting an older kernel from the list when I power up the laptop?

Shouldn't these numbers be the same?


beth@grumpy-laptop:~$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: WDC WD5000BEVT-75A0RT0: 46°C



beth@grumpy-laptop:~$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0

I haven't really liked any of the flavors since Jaunty, I think. Any reason why I shouldn't burn an install disc and head on back to that?

My laptop running Lucid is overheating. When this happens, it makes an angry, very loud buzzing noise and the screen either goes black or glitches like an NES game, and I have to manually power...