Re: Booting a USB hard drive [SOLVED]

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Bonucci
On Friday, May 13, 2011 08:25:43 am Camaleón wrote: snip If I were you, I'll proceed as follows: - Remove the laptop stock hard disk (just to prevent rewriting the MBR of the wrng device) - And then try a complete reinstall of GRUB (whatever version you prefer, you can first give a try

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-12 Thread Peter Bonucci
On Thursday, May 12, 2011 04:38:18 am Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2011 15:30:22 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote: On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:04:48 pm Camaleón wrote: Okay, I've carefully read all of your tests, so let's recap: - SGD (1.98x) cannot detect the USB drive (¿?) - SGD (0.99x

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Bonucci
On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 05:13:46 am Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 09 May 2011 13:21:20 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote: On Monday, May 09, 2011 10:25:44 am Camaleón wrote: Booting a USB drive when the drive and computer don't cooperate is an old problem. People solved it under Debian years ago. I

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Bonucci
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:04:48 pm Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2011 00:54:03 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote: On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 05:13:46 am Camaleón wrote: (...) Under SuperGrubDisk, List devices/partitions, Grub doesn't see the USB drive. None of the other options boot

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-09 Thread Peter Bonucci
On Sunday, May 08, 2011 10:17:47 pm Klaus Wolf wrote: Sorry, I think that this is not a debian related problem, The BIOS of your Laptop has to bi figured to use the USB-Drive for boot. so long klaus The BIOS of this computer boots from all of my other USB drives. The problem is this

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-09 Thread Peter Bonucci
On Monday, May 09, 2011 10:25:44 am Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 09 May 2011 09:02:45 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote: On Sunday, May 08, 2011 10:17:47 pm Klaus Wolf wrote: I think that this is not a debian related problem, The BIOS of your Laptop has to bi figured to use the USB-Drive for boot

Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-08 Thread Peter Bonucci
I have installed Debian onto a USB hard drive and would like to boot to the disk and run Debian. When I try to boot directly to this disk, my laptop tries to perform a network boot. This normal for this laptop when it can't find the boot device. The laptop uses the grub2 bootloader. When I

Gnome-panel uses 100% CPU after upgrade

2011-02-08 Thread Peter Bonucci
I just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. The installation when fine except that I had to load the ethernet firmware manually. I am using Gnome for the desktop. When I log into the computer, the top menu panel flickers constantly and does not display Applications / Places / System. This

Import many EPS files

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Bonucci
I have about 300 EPS vector graphics files that I would like to import into Scribus. I thought I could use a script for this, but I can't find an import EPS function. I would prefer to not to use Get Image, because it rastorizes the graphics. Is there another way to do this? -- To

Re: Import many EPS files

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Bonucci
Sorry about the off-topic post. I sent it to the wrong list. On Tuesday 25 January 2011 12:50:18 pm Peter Bonucci wrote: I have about 300 EPS vector graphics files that I would like to import into Scribus. I thought I could use a script for this, but I can't find an import EPS function

Re: GRUB Error 21 after install

2006-10-26 Thread Peter Bonucci
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 01:25 pm, Roby wrote: snip How do I get the laptop to boot again? Re-write the mbr on your internal HD like this: grub root (hd0,1) grub setup (hd0) Then reboot. Thank you very much. I had tried something like that before, but I guess I missed something.

Re: Color Distortion in KDE

2004-07-13 Thread Peter Bonucci
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesse, I've had the same problem, since the X update about a month ago. It worked fine before that. I also have the 855 GM video controller. Thanks for the menu effects comment. I hadn't realized I could shut it off that way -- I don't like

Re: Possible convert to Debian

2004-06-07 Thread Peter Bonucci
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 June 2004 8:26 pm, William Ballard wrote: On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:10:18PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: Any other comments for this relative newbie that's old (50) and not a sysadmin by trade? Thanks a bunch for your time! It

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-02-01 Thread Peter Bonucci
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 February 2004 02:25 pm, Pedro M. wrote: I am havin problems with printing too. But the bad part is : I used Knoppix for the hard disk installation. Conclusion : we need a easy to configure, autodetect and XFreebased printing control