Michael Holloway wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Honestly I've installed Ubuntu countless times, mostly servers. Since
> 7.04 i seem to get this every time! On different machines and VMs. I
> assumed this was just a "lazy" way of forcing a disk check after its
> been installed.
>
> So all i do is install, a
MailoGroups wrote:
>> Snip...
>> Quite what the actual problem is, I don't know but I wouldn't be looking
>> at changing batteries, I'd suspect some hardware incompatibility.
>>
> Have you actually replaced the hard drive?
> Or at least run a decent disk checker on it (the one from Maxtor
> ex
On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 10:42 +0100, Michael Holloway wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 09:11 +0100, David Restall - System Administrator
> wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > > I've been trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my dad's Thinkpad R50e
> > > notebook this evening with not much luck.
> >
> > Snip...
>
On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 09:11 +0100, David Restall - System Administrator
wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> > I've been trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my dad's Thinkpad R50e
> > notebook this evening with not much luck.
>
> Snip...
>
> > I then rebooted again, and during the reboot the machine complained
>
> Snip...
> Quite what the actual problem is, I don't know but I wouldn't be looking
> at changing batteries, I'd suspect some hardware incompatibility.
>
Have you actually replaced the hard drive?
Or at least run a decent disk checker on it (the one from Maxtor
excellent)?
Installing a whol
Hi Rob,
> I've been trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my dad's Thinkpad R50e
> notebook this evening with not much luck.
Snip...
> I then rebooted again, and during the reboot the machine complained
> about not having a disk check for about 49,710 days. It ran through the
> disk check and reb
Farran Lee wrote:
> Hi Rob
> just had that happen with my laptop.
> Inside is a tiny battery that powers the BIOS memory (or something). My
> laptop is awfully old, and the battery has finally gone flat. This means
> that every time my laptop is disconnected from the mains, it forgets all
> the set
> Inside is a tiny battery that powers the BIOS memory (or something). My
> laptop is awfully old, and the battery has finally gone flat. This means
> that every time my laptop is disconnected from the mains, it forgets all
> the settings I have made in the BIOS. It complains at me a lot,
Sounds l
Hi Rob
just had that happen with my laptop.
Inside is a tiny battery that powers the BIOS memory (or something). My
laptop is awfully old, and the battery has finally gone flat. This means
that every time my laptop is disconnected from the mains, it forgets all
the settings I have made in the BIOS.
Hi folks,
I've been trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my dad's Thinkpad R50e
notebook this evening with not much luck.
Basically my dad's had his laptop for a year and the hard drive
developed bad sectors just after the warranty ran out. To complicate
things further, the installation files wer
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