Cool thanks Jeff, I appreciate the help. This netbook has a hard drive so I think I'm going to try that. For future reference, what do you think happened? It sounds like to me something happened to the GRUB where it couldn't find the os but not really sure.
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote: > ** > > On Saturday, October 08, 2011 10:49:37 PM ryan villa wrote: > > > > and the computer looks like its about to boot but just hangs at ubuntu > > > 10.10 loading screen. Seems like the Grub on my system is hosed. I > > > researched these errors and got a lot of other issues but not really like > > > the one I am having. I am going to keep researching but thought I would > > > ask you guys maybe for a little direction. Also when I boot to Ubuntu > > > disk, it hangs at the installation part. Any suggestions? Also does > anyone > > > have good live cd I could download or something I could boot on a thumb > > > drive? Thanks everyone > > > What you do next depends on the direction you want to take. If you want to > learn what's going on you can download the latest ubuntu liveCD (or almost > any other LiveCD), and start looking. > > > If you want to get your system up and running you do this: > > > Remove the drive (hopefully it's a real drive and not the kind of SSD used > in the earliest netbooks, the ones that were mounted chips implemented as > drives), get one of those usb adapters (you can get them at Frys; probably > lots of other places as well, hook it up to your desktop system, back up the > home directory, wipe the first few hundred sectors of the drive, put it back > in your netbook, reinstall the OS (wiping those few hundred sectors makes > the OS install CD/DVD think it's a clean drive), and then restore your home > directory. > > > Me, I need my systems up and running; I'd probably do the latter. > > > (Note I have an early Netbook with a non-removabls SSD; I don't store any > important data on it at all.) > > > Jeff > > -- > > Jeff Lasman > > Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > > Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > -- Ryan Villa 949.357.5095 villa.r...@gmail.com
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