On Tuesday 19 February 2013 11:50:20 Kent A. Reed did opine: > On 2/19/2013 11:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > I was advised that John Morris's new stuff was running on a 12.04 LTS > > install, where as a test install on 10.04-4 on my lappy wouldn't boot, > > the new kernel panic's about .6 seconds in, "can't mount sda1 as > > /boot (or root, I didn't take a pix)" I also had to do the sailors > > hornpipe on the left shift + ctl in order to get a grub screen at > > all. > > Gene: > > I suppose it's a bit late in the day to ask if you first tried a > LiveCD/LiveUSB version :-)
Yup, deed is done. Disaster is an understatment. > Details about your laptop may not help but I always ask. My personal > experience has been that newer releases of Ubuntu (and most every other > distro as well) are more likely to work "out of the box" on my laptops > than older ones. > > If I recall correctly, this isn't the first time you've > complained...er...commented about IPV6. I am at a loss. Yes, recent > distros enable IPV6 by default but the distros "just work" for me on my > home IPV4 network. One, just one, of my D525MW boards, I had to disable ipv6 on before it would accept an ipv4 setup, its still enabled on 2 others and working fine. > It's not Ubuntu 12.04, but at the moment I'm running Linux Mint 13 on a > Toshiba Netbook NB305 with Michael Haberler's 3.2.21-xenomai+ kernel. > IIRC I had tested Ubuntu 12.04 on it at some point. Ethernet and WiFi > interfaces work without my fingers leaving my hands. I should be so lucky. :) > The only notable problems I have are 1) Linux doesn't wake up properly > after I've closed and opened the cover and 2) battery performance is > still terrible compared to performance with MS Windows. I think I can > fix 1) if I just dig around the Internet, but 2) is a continuing > challenge for the Linux-on-laptop community. Which is why that now ancient HP lappy remains plugged in. My battery might run long enough to carry it to the house & plug it back in, maybe. :( > Regards, > Kent Thanks Kent. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news. -- Larry Wall in <[email protected]> I was taught to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder to find any... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
