On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 00:55:01 -0700 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
>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but eventually it got too far out of date so I installed Xubuntu 12.04.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. I should have added that when I boot I get: error: no such partition grub rescue> But I am unable to figure out how to use grub rescue. I tried help and other obvious commands, but all I get is error messages. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
