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Not having a grub modification program in the supported software really sux. Doing a search for grub and related items to find out what replaced the missing startupmanager failed, so I installed...

I'm using a Dell XPS laptop with:

Intel(R) HD Graphics [Display adapter]
NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M [Display adapter]
Generic PnP Monitor (15.3"vis)

(belarc info above)

When I installed the...

I'm having a similar problem with a new Dell XPS L501. Running startupmanager yields the following:

dad@dad-XPS-L501X:~$ startupmanager
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-24-generic...

What happened when you installed? I've installed 10.10-64bit on a Dell XPS L501X and trying to get the nVidia driver to work dumps me to a terminal.

The default ubuntu video control driver is...

How do I evaluate if there is an onboard video chip active? Hardinfo shows I/O ports 2000-207f dedicated to an nVidia Corp. device {VGA controller}.

I don't see anything that looks like another...

I re-installed 10.04.1 on my netbook to escape Unity.

It really is a touch pad interface, but is cumbersome with a pc.

After experiencing Unity, I'm glad that I switched my main computer from...

I see a similar problem with the 9.10 Firefox updating on a Fresh installation of 9.10, BUT, probably because of minefield (Firefox 3.7a1pre.en-US) when Synaptic is updating the "installed" programs....

And, you did check the bios setup so that usb storage is at the top of the boot list, eh?

I use wicd instead of network manager. Try here:

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php

The less than 10 seconds error used to be a video card/monitor problem; recent versions of linux have...

I just formatted the usb drive with gparted as fat32, and then used image writer to "copy" the netbook-remix image to the usb drive.

here is the contents of that drive (I used it to install the...

I had an ext4 partition for the os (9.04betaNR) and an ext2 for /home on a Dellmini9. No problems, but to ensure that there wasn't polling/tracking I reinstalled the os on ext2, with a straight...

I've had no problems with the last couple of alphas and the betas. Now, the live desktop cd fails to load with a checksum error. The md5 numbers match before burning the cd.

I've burned using...

The only difference that I see is in the configuration (Dell Inspiron E1505 using 8.04.01 and wicd because Network Manager loses the WPA passphrase) I've got an IP assigned via DHCP:
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Presumably, the problem comes from Ubuntu/Debian? programmers following the instructions provided by the hard drive makers and using their (the makers) default settings. That seemed to be the jist...

This is a HD killer if you run on battery a lot. Note that the problem seems to be restricted to while running on battery (HD is shut down and awakened every minute). Here's the link:
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But if it has no affect, it isn't running the live cd.

I does affect the computer but leaves no permanent effect.

It will affect the computer, temporarily; they will run another operating system.

It will not effect their computer permanently, as their hard drive will remain unchanged.

That's my take on it....

affecting or effecting?

I suspect it is the second.

As in "no effect upon your computer to try live CD".

I really like your sleeve setup with the printing on the back.

=D>

Dell notebook:

Disk /dev/sda: 78.5 GB, 78518522880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9546 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End ...