well if you want to create a dos floppy i have a usb floppy drive i can likely borrow and se about brining to the next west side plug meeting
and a windows box to make it. however i do not know how potable your system is. i cant remember if it is a laptop or not. be a neat project to see come alive as a subset of wine for the creation of boot disks.. if you want to send me a link i can try to create a disk img for you as well to work with On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Dazed_75<lthiels...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Trent Shipley <tship...@deru.com> wrote: >> >> >> Memtest86 passed. >> >> So far people have also suggested the cause as hardware >> incompatibility, hard drive issues, BIOS (Dell's site does recommend >> updating the BIOS for my motherboard but their program won't run from >> a CD and I couldn't figure out how to make a bootable DOS flash >> drive), usb drive/video card/other card/any peripheral, acpi (I think >> this issue is fixed in newer versions of Ubuntu), and my personal >> theory that the problem is fundamentally caused by an incompatible >> combination of software and hardware. Software-hardware problems >> would explain why over several kernel iterations some are stable and >> run beautifully while others won't boot. Without the boot log it's >> all superstitious guess work. If I had another Linux machine I'd do >> surgery and mount the problem system's drive to read the log. >> >> I think RedSeven is going to get some of my money. >> > Trent, > > I read back through your posts and two things I have not seen from you are: > > 1) any details about your hardware other than it being a Dell (model, > memory, disk space, etc) > 2) do you need to retain any files/data from the system for which you don't > have backups > > Please provide that information. > > Depending on the answers and how quickly you need to get this resolved, you > might not have to go to the expense of a professional repair shop. If > necessary we might be able to get together to work on this. Too bad we did > not have it to work on at the installfest. You said near ASU West. Are you > a student? > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, > that I wish it always to be kept alive. > - Thomas Jefferson > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
