Hi Peter, > Now the machine won't even boot. I get a display to the effect that > the screen size is not recognised that I have seen before when things > don't work.
AFAIK the BIOS isn't concerned with screen resolution so it's presumably getting to Grub and beyond? There's always the option of uploading a low-res. photo of the screen with the error to http://tinypic.com/ or similar. > When I try to install from a Cd that I created, it cannot find my > first hard disk, and wants to install on SCS1 which is my small second > data disk. This CD is a recent Live Linux CD? Get to a shell prompt from within it and try `ls /dev/disk/by-id', there should be one symbolic link per drive and partition, or see what `dmesg | grep '\<sd'' shows from boot-time. > My only thought is to try and rebuild the machine using kubuntu 10.10. > My feeling is that grub is gone. That wouldn't explain the Live CD not knowing that drive existed. Is it visible in gparted, GNU's GUI partition editor? Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
