On 25/01/17 08:16, steve wrote:
On 01/23/2017 07:36 PM, Barry wrote:
Hi All, the heading understates my problem - I can no longer boot my
desktop!!!
The setup is I have 2 hard drives, 1 with 6 ptns and the other with
8. Each drive has (or should have) 2 bootable ptns. I am using grub
to
I understand you are a Mageia distro user Barry.
According to the
link below Mageia 5 installs Grub2-efi by default. Could it be that
Grub2-efi is having problems with older Grub2-mbr boot method used in
older OS installations or your hardware does not have have the efi bios
feature?
Is the
you should be able to pretend that you've in your normal environment
using a load of 'mount ...' commands followed by a chroot. There are
plenty of examples online -
http://superuser.com/questions/52/whats-the-proper-way-to-prepare-chroot-to-recover-a-broken-linux-installation
seems to
On 01/23/2017 07:36 PM, Barry wrote:
Hi All, the heading understates my problem - I can no longer boot my
desktop!!!
The setup is I have 2 hard drives, 1 with 6 ptns and the other with 8.
Each drive has (or should have) 2 bootable ptns. I am using grub to
start any one of them but none work.
Thank you for your reply, what a horrible suggestion.
After googling I opened a second xterm and logged in no problem. mount
showed that the correct ptn was mounted and df showed I have 7G
available. I then tried startx which failed with error 1.
Checking the log file showed this msg "(EE)
On Mon 23 Jan 2017 19:36:50 NZDT +1300, Barry wrote:
> Hi All, the heading understates my problem - I can no longer boot my
> desktop!!!
Did anyone already overstate the requirement for giving useful fault
descriptions?
> to start any one of them but none work. All attempts to reinstate
> boot
Sorry to hear :(
Motherboard failure?
Roger
On 23/01/2017 7:36 p.m., Barry wrote:
Hi All, the heading understates my problem - I can no longer boot my
desktop!!!
The setup is I have 2 hard drives, 1 with 6 ptns and the other with 8.
Each drive has (or should have) 2 bootable ptns. I am
Hi All, the heading understates my problem - I can no longer boot my
desktop!!!
The setup is I have 2 hard drives, 1 with 6 ptns and the other with 8.
Each drive has (or should have) 2 bootable ptns. I am using grub to
start any one of them but none work. All attempts to reinstate boot
