Hogwash. Clearly a hardware (HD, fan maybe) failure, and nothing to do with Ubuntu or linux.
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Stanley Brinkerhoff <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:20:23 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Ubuntu killed my harddrive! I have been running Windows 2008 Server on my laptop for the past 120 days. Last night it finally gave me a "register or die" message, and I was going to give Ubuntu a shot as my primary OS. I already run it on my servers and development laptop, but day to day I still use Windows. I installed it last night, and went to bed with it running updates. This morning it was turned off, and when I turned it back on it said something about the machine as shutdown due to thermal failure (!!). Today at work I was working away ... and the machine became very slow (it was just idling with some terminal windows open). I shut it down, picked it up and it literally burned my hands. I let it cool down, and now it refuses to recognize the harddrive (a replacement works -- yay for spare parts!). Has anyone ever experienced this?? Is there something special you need to do with a modern-ish Dell laptop to run Ubutnu? Its been chugging away fine for years on my Dell Latitude X300 and other laptops. LINUX (or some combination of that and bad power management?) KILLED MY HARDDRIVE! Stan Ubuntu 8.10, Dell latitude D620, intel core duo 2.0ghz.
