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    [ubuntu] Re: Installation/Upgrade Mess

    No one has any ideas or suggestions?
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    [ubuntu] Installation/Upgrade Mess

    Hey all; it's me again--back with the same problem. Here's the story: About a month back, my updater tried to install a new, ext4 distro onto a partition that was formatted for ext3. Needless to...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Distro Upgrade Failed Miserably

    Here is what hppened: I downloaded and extracted Boot Info Script onto a thumb drive. I then booted the computer with the live CD, and mounted both the thumb drive and the Linux partition. I then...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Distro Upgrade Failed Miserably

    Unfortunately, I don't have a live CD, newer than v7. Since getting that one, all upgrades and updates have been handled by the package manager.

    One possibility, could I have gotten a corrupted...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Distro Upgrade Failed Miserably

    No, I have no 64-bit stuff. Only 32-bit i386. Could it be because I am using two different versions of Ubuntu? The live CD is an old v7.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Distro Upgrade Failed Miserably

    Any suggestions?
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    [ubuntu] Re: Distro Upgrade Failed Miserably

    Here is a copy of my terminal screen:




    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo -i
    root@ubuntu:~# mount -t proc proc /media/disk/proc
    root@ubuntu:~# mount -t sysfs sys /media/disk/sys
    root@ubuntu:~# mount -o...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Distro Upgrade Failed Miserably

    OK, I got the mount commands working. The Properties dialog box defined the mount point as simply "/media/disk"--no need for the long uuid.

    However, when I got to the "chroot" command, I got...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Distro Upgrade Failed Miserably

    OK, I booted up with an old live CD.

    I got as far as typing "mount -t proc proc /*partition*/proc"

    And, the response was "/*partition*/proc does not exist"
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    [ubuntu] Distro Upgrade Failed Miserably

    Hey All,

    Yesterday, I tried to upgrade to v10.04 ("Lucid"). After nearly 15 hours of painfully slow downloading and installing, my computer froze, just as the upgrade was almost complete. ...
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    [all variants] Video Card Won't Work

    Hey All,

    I am pulling my hair out over this one. I ordered a new Sapphire HD 3650 graphics card. The first one I got was completely dead (no signal to monitor). So, I RMA'd it, and got a...
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    [ubuntu_studio] Re: Looking For Monitor

    Well, so much of choosing a monitor, particularly LCD, is subjective. I have gone over the specs, and read the reviews. But, I still can't tell if I would like any particular monitor. Best I could...
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    [ubuntu_studio] Looking For Monitor

    I am looking for some advice on a new, 19" LCD monitor for photo editing. No question, I need good color, good contrast, and a generous viewing angle, at a good price.

    Unfortunately, none of the...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Error 24

    Just one other thing. I read that, on this mobo, a newer SATA drive (with NCQ) can sometimes conflict with the nVidia GeForce video card. That may also have been the problem. I could solve that by...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Error 24

    Hey, thanks for all your time and effort. But really, it looks like the drive is dead. No sense going through a lot of trouble to recover a few trivial things. Anything of importance has been...
  16. Thread: Error 24

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    [ubuntu] Re: Error 24

    No luck. The result was:


    mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
    Could not stat /dev/sda1 --- No such file or directory

    The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?
  17. Thread: Error 24

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    [ubuntu] Re: Error 24

    Well, the version on the live CD is rather old (7.04), and it did not have "partimage" in its Synaptic database. I tried updating the database. But, I got an error saying that the version was too...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Error 24

    OK, runing "fsck" produced:


    fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
    e2fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
    fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda1

    The superblock could not be read or...
  19. Thread: Error 24

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    [ubuntu] Re: Error 24

    When using the live CD, the drive IS listed in the "Places" menu. But, when I click on it, I get an error saying that Linux cannot mount the drive. Yet, even then, it still remains listed in...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Error 24

    Yes, same as other command.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Error 24

    P.S. Yet, the BIOS always recognizes the HDD, without a problem.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Error 24

    Actually, the command:


    find /boot/grub/stage1

    yields: "no such file or directory".

    It was when I tried the "Alternate/Install CD" procedure described in Section 6 of the recovery...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Error 24

    No luck. I tried doing the rescue routine. But, when it came time to read the partition, it said that it could not mount the drive. So, I next tried to get a read-out using the command above. The...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Error 24

    OK, runnig "blkid" under "sudo" worked; it is a root command. Here is the output:


    /dev/sda1: UUID="5c8a8649-187a-415e-97f8-43ffdb617ff9" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
    /dev/sda5:...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Error 24

    No further replies? Does that mean that it's toast?
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