Thanks, Tom. I was hoping you might be able to help out. Somehow, I think have either incorrectly installed the guard bars or just got the wrong sized screen. I'll bring the tools I used and the old broken screen, too. I've half convinced myself that I somehow installed guard bars upside down, or in the wrong order, or some such.
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Thomas Kirk <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.... 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