Re: [SLUG] PC won't recognise boot disk
On 09/06/11 12:05, K L wrote: I have thrice now wiped the entire disk and re-installed, including physically zero-ing out the first 512 bytes (which I understand to be the MBR) so I would've expected the re-installs to deal with that. If you're 100% sure the BIOS is set to boot off the correct disk once it's been wiped and reinstalled (you don't have a USB flash drive or MP3 player plugged in, do you?), then it's possible a "virus protection" setting on the BIOS is blocking overwriting the MBR. Some BIOSes have a "virus protection" "feature" (*cough*) which basically blocks any attempts to write to the MBR. Or, in practice, I would imagine that it silently ignores attempts. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] clone non-LVM system onto new LVM drive
Scenario: * Ubuntu presently installed *without* LVM. * New hard drive formatted with: /boot ext3 partition (empty so far) LVM group containing ext3 LV I want to copy the original root partition onto the new LV so that the new hard drive and LV is a bootable clone, and the old physical drive can be removed/saved. There are three objectives: Convert to LVM Keep the original as backup Upgrade the LVM version and be able to roll back if necessary. I'm assuming that I will have to boot into a live CD and dd the original root partition onto an LV. How do I persuade this to boot correctly? Do I copy the original /boot onto the new boot partition? Do I have to make changes to the boot directory? Changes to grub? Then what? (apart from any BIOS changes, which are fairly obvious). So far I haven't been able to find the right question to ask Google. Any help would be appreciated, of if anyone could point me at a howto that covers this scenario. thanks David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Email Client
I have been using evolution for years now and its been OK but now i want to know is there a better email client then evolution, that do you think of Thunderbirds? OK before you send me an email asking what i want to do with or in it here is some of what i will use - General email (HTML) - Group emails - External assess to other address books local and over the network and internet - External access to the mail client form local and over the network and internet - synchronization of internal email address book to the internet for backup and re-sync to other systems - Image embedded address sending (I image to appear in the receivers email info bar) - email message generation form other program (API) with email client. etc I think you can get the drift of what i am looking for so any ideas i can look at please -- Regards Daryl Thompson Ph : 0401 642 231 E-Mail : daryl.francis.thomp...@gmail.com This email and any attachments are intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you have received this email in error please advise the sender by return email, do not use or disclose the contents, and delete the message and any attachments. -- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] PC won't recognise boot disk - SOLVED
I'd spent enough time pissing around with it. So I went and bought a cheap new pc. Thanks everyone. Kind Regards Kyle -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
