Mike. Why don't you bring your lcd and laptop to the cwe lug meeting
and I will see what i can do about your screen. It sounds like you
have fixed the other issues. Thomas
On Jan 23, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Mike B. wrote:
Here is a short synopsis on how to recover a borked linux system if
your /home partition is on another partition (logical or not).
Boot a live CD. Reinstall the OS, and when the partition manager step
arrives, choose Manual partition. The next page in the setup will list
the partitions on your hard drive. Check the partition where you have
/ installed. Choose / from the drop-down menu and format ext4 (in my
case), then click on /home partition, choose ext4, uncheck the format
box, and pick home. Repeat format /, but don't format /home. Move
forward to install and Shazaam! it will work.
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Mike B. <[email protected]> wrote:
It worked. All my data was still there.
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Mike B. <[email protected]>
wrote:
The only live CD I could find was 10.10 and I downloaded that the
day
of the release. It doesn't install properly. That is, it hangs on
the
second screen of the install process. So I decided to delete the /
partition, and of course that removes grub.
Now I'm downloading 10.04--onto my home partition so I can burn it
to
a cd--which is the version I really want anyway.
Furthermore, I also borked my backup drive version of Ubuntu the
same
way I borked Ubuntu... by trying to boot and failing to log in.
Let this be a lesson to all of us--me mostly. Never unplug,
ctrl-alt-del, hold in the power button without completing a login.
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Robert Citek <[email protected]
> wrote:
Ouch.
Some quick thoughts:
1) boot from a LiveCD or LiveUSB and backup everything, if you
haven't
already or don't do this regularly.
2) plug in an external monitor
3) make another backup, just to be sure
4) start fixing things
Good luck and let us know how things go.
Regards,
- Robert
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Mike B. <[email protected]>
wrote:
Last week I slipped on some ice whilst carrying my laptop.
Shattered
screen. Went to
www.laptopscreen.com and got another one for $75. The new screen
works fine, but there are a couple of
problems. 1) I was not able to get the bezel back on properly.
For
some reason, maybe the screen is a mil or two
wider, the bottom part of the bezel did not seal properly. I'm
hoping
Tom can help at the next meeting. Asus K601.
2) And the more immediate problem: I rebooted the computer to
show
everyone what a broken screen looked like. Of course, the
screen was
shattered so all anyone could see were the black lines and
splotches
across the screen with some lighter areas, so I couldn't shut down
properly. I had to press the start button until the computer shut
down. When I booted after installing the screen the system
tried to
fix itself. I had this wonderful idea to boot from a live cd
and run
fsck, so I shut down the system again after half an hour. Then
I got
gibberish on the screen when I started it again, after I failed to
locate the live cd.
Well, I obviously found the cd and am considering reinstalling.
<bold>I am concerned about wiping out my home partition</bold> and
have backed up those items that say I have access to them. In
addition I ran gparted to identify whether my partitions were in
order. It said my home partition was fine, while my / partition is
screwed. BTW, grub works fine, and the boot says /sbin/init is
missing or damaged. I cannot mount my / partition. So. I am
babbling
here.... Sorry I guess I'll have to google it.
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