On June 25, 2015 at 4:39 PM Derek Martin inva...@pizzashack.org wrote:
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 03:13:13PM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote:
I'll chime in on this one more time just to be clear about what my beef
with linux is here. Several people have said, in effect, Have more
RAM or Have
Suggestion: Boot from other media (USB/CD etc) an OS that will allow you to
run SMART utilities on the drive.
I have a drive that is acting as you describe, it was 'out of reparable
sectors' or something like that. It basically means the drive is out of
places to stash good data after finding
My desktop is a lenovo I bought last fall. It has only ubuntu installed
on it. There is a 500M boot partition, which seems to have been
clobbered. The / partition looks fine, and in fact includes a /boot
directory that looks normal to me.
I rebooted it a couple of days ago because of a new
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 08:39:03AM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote:
My desktop is a lenovo I bought last fall. It has only ubuntu installed
on it. There is a 500M boot partition, which seems to have been
clobbered. The / partition looks fine, and in fact includes a /boot
directory that looks
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Laura Conrad su...@laymusic.org wrote:
My desktop is a lenovo I bought last fall. It has only ubuntu installed
on it. There is a 500M boot partition, which seems to have been
clobbered. The / partition looks fine, and in fact includes a /boot
directory
Try using the SystemRescueCD.
http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage
It's my go-to when I need to fix a box that won't boot.
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On 6/26/2015 2:45 AM, Peter Olson wrote:
Blaming the victim is unproductive.
M-x snark-mode
What? We're not blaming the computer for thrashing and crashing when
unreasonable demands are being made of it. We're blaming the user for
abusing and overwhelming the poor, mistreated computer.
On June 26, 2015 at 10:24 AM Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/26/2015 2:45 AM, Peter Olson wrote:
Blaming the victim is unproductive.
M-x snark-mode
What? We're not blaming the computer for thrashing and crashing when
unreasonable demands are being made of it. We're
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 01:45:51PM -0400, Peter Olson wrote:
Unreasonable demands such as leaving Netsol Webmail running overnight and
having
to kill Firefox in the morning :-)
(This may have been fixed in a recent upgrade of Webmail.)
Well that certainly seems to suggest that it was not
On June 26, 2015 at 2:04 PM Derek Martin inva...@pizzashack.org wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 01:45:51PM -0400, Peter Olson wrote:
Unreasonable demands such as leaving Netsol Webmail running overnight and
having
to kill Firefox in the morning :-)
(This may have been fixed in a
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:45:13AM -0400, Peter Olson wrote:
On June 25, 2015 at 4:39 PM Derek Martin inva...@pizzashack.org wrote:
If you browse daily, and browsing is causing your problem, then it
seems clear to me that you do not.
Blaming the victim is unproductive.
No, sticking your
Dan == Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org writes:
Dan Can you boot from a rescue USB or disc? Sounds like you need to
Dan re-install a boot-loader (LILO or GRUB, most likely)
Yes, I can do either of those. boot-repair is supposed to reinstall
grub, and thinks it has, but not so I can
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