My desktop computer is used only for streaming internet radio, playing movies, and as a backup to get on the net in case I hopelessly mess up my laptop. It ran Ubuntu 10.04 for years, long after 12.04 came out, but eventually it got too far out of date so I installed Xubuntu 12.04. Due to issues with the video driver that came with 12.04, I wiped it out and installed Mint. But Mint has issues playing videos (slow, jerky video). So this evening I decided to try Xubuntu again.
The first thing I discovered is that I can't get the ASUS M2NPV-VM BIOS to boot to a USB stick. So I burned a DVD on my laptop and installed from that. However, no matter what I try, it won't boot after the install. This is curious because several months ago when I installed 12.04 it booted and ran fine (except for the video driver issues). That was version 12.04 and now I am trying to install 12.04.3. The computer has two 320 GB Seagate drives (SDA and SDB), originally matching, but one failed and Seagate replaced it with a refurbished unit. It also as a 1 TB drive, but I don't want to touch it because I used it to store ~/ on, intending to copy it back to ~/ after the fresh install of Xubuntu. I started by installing to SDA setting up a 20 GB partition for root, a 6 GB partition for swap, and the remainder for home. It goes all the way through the install process without error, but when it finishes and I reboot, it comes up in rescue mode. Thinking that there might be a problem with SDA I repeated the install to SDB, but got the same results. I also tried telling the installer to apply all updates during the install, but it made no difference. The computer has 2 GB RAM and video is nVidia GeForce 6150 on the motherboard. The motherboard has 4 SATA connectors. In the BIOS it sees the two 320 GB drives, but not the 1 TB drive. I don't understand that, because a few hours ago with Mint it saw the 1 TB drive just fine. It is way past my bedtime, I am out of ideas, disgusted, and I will not have music in my house tomorrow. I hope someone has some ideas. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
