[Hampshire] Grub / boot issue

2010-09-28 Thread Paul Tansom
I must be missing something obvious on this, but I've done it before without problems and, although I've got a bit more investigating up my sleeve, this one is getting annoying! I've got a system (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server) that is running quite happily on a software RAID mirror. One drive needs

Re: [Hampshire] Grub / boot issue

2010-09-28 Thread John Cooper
On 28/09/10 10:15, Paul Tansom wrote: I must be missing something obvious on this, but I've done it before without problems and, although I've got a bit more investigating up my sleeve, this one is getting annoying! I've got a system (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server) that is running quite happily on a

Re: [Hampshire] Grub / boot issue

2010-09-28 Thread Paul Tansom
** Vic l...@beer.org.uk [2010-09-28 12:08]: Paul, is this a UUID problem. I was just about to suggest the same thing. Please post your grub.conf (or menu.lst) If there are any UUID entries in there, you'll ned to change them. I tend to use volume labels instead for this sort of thing -

[Hampshire] Reminder : BaB @ Nokia on 9 Sep 2010 : 11am - 5pm'ish

2010-09-28 Thread robert.beattie
Surrey LUG Bring-a-Box reminder : Nokia, GU14 0NG As usual, please email me next-of-kin details so that our security people are kept happy. :) Mark the subject as Linux meeting. Fellow Hants Luggers also welcome. -- Bob Beattie Senior Technical Support Engineer

[Hampshire] FW: Reminder : BaB @ Nokia on 9 Oct 2010 : 11am - 5pm'ish

2010-09-28 Thread robert.beattie
October ! -- Bob Beattie Senior Technical Support Engineer Camera Development Systems, MP RD, Nokia Southwood, UK Tel : +44 (0)1252 866452 www.nokia.com -- -Original Message- From: Beattie Robert (Nokia-MP/Southwood) Sent: 28

[Hampshire] OpenOffice Windows vs Linux

2010-09-28 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, Someone at work has a problem and I wondered if anyone could give me some hints to resolve it for him. He has a small OpenOffice macro package (written by his wife so we can't change that) which provides keystokes combinations for things like umlauts. The package was generated and works

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] AGM and next meeting

2010-09-28 Thread Victor Churchill
On 25 September 2010 09:01, Hants LUG Chairman adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: If you would like to give a talk at the meeting then please let us know I will offer the talk that did not happen at Hursley, on beginning cloud computing with AWS (provided, that is, that my lapdog will talk to

[Hampshire] [ADMIN] October meeting

2010-09-28 Thread Hants LUG Chairman
Hi, This is your mid-week reminder that the next LUG meeting and AGM will take place on Saturday 2 October at Southampton University between the normal hours of 10:00 and 4:30. We have one talk already and it will be our AGM. So far there have been no nominations on the list for the committee

Re: [Hampshire] Grub / boot issue

2010-09-28 Thread john
The easiest way to deal with the problem is to create a small partition on the drive which will fit s small linux distro. Install into this partition. When the small distro is running update grub. Latest Puppy should do it. This will give you the details about the drives that you will need.

Re: [Hampshire] Grub / boot issue

2010-09-28 Thread John Cooper
On 28/09/10 20:55, john wrote: The easiest way to deal with the problem is to create a small partition on the drive which will fit s small linux distro. Install into this partition. When the small distro is running update grub. Latest Puppy should do it. This will give you the details about

Re: [Hampshire] Grub / boot issue

2010-09-28 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:55:24 +0100, j...@jesoftware.freeserve.co.uk said: The easiest way to deal with the problem is to create a small partition on the drive which will fit s small linux distro. Install into this partition. When the small distro is running update grub. Booting from a

Re: [Hampshire] Grub / boot issue

2010-09-28 Thread Vic
It is pretty much as created and maintained by the Ubuntu install, so having removed the majority of the comments to keep it short: default 0 timeout 3 hiddenmenu ## ## End Default Options ## title Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-21-server root