On 10/06/2010 21:23, John Matthews wrote:
Unfortunately. that is all that happens, you click on the recovery link,
and it goes black, then it freezes, and you cant do anything at all
after. That goes for each kernel recovery link. Until that update a
couple of weeks ago it worked.
The reason
On 11 June 2010 01:36, jakewc2 jake...@sky.com wrote:
Ok, I cant sleep, and have found that file you wanted,
http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/66604
Hope that helps.
John
OK: Comparing the normal boot to the recovery it looks like they are
both the same.
I'm wondering if the issue could be the
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Matthew Bassett hewb...@gmail.com wrote:
Assuming this fixes your issue, then I _think_ the place to make these
changes permanent is the file /etc/default/grub; remove text of the
form vga=791, and then run the command sudo update-grub to
regenerate the grub
Matthew Bassett wrote:
On 11 June 2010 01:36, jakewc2 jake...@sky.com wrote:
Ok, I cant sleep, and have found that file you wanted,
�http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/66604
Hope that helps.
John
OK: Comparing the normal boot to the recovery it looks like they are
both the same.
I'm
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about problems I was having, and one of
those was recovery, though the grub. Didnt matter what kernel I clicked
on it froze and nothing happened.
This week, we had a partial upgrade, which cleaned up my grub for me,
removing all but two kernels. Problem is, I
On 10/06/10 08:20, John Matthews wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about problems I was having, and one
of those was recovery, though the grub. Didnt matter what kernel I
clicked on it froze and nothing happened.
This week, we had a partial upgrade, which cleaned up my grub for me,
On 10/06/10 19:08, John Matthews wrote:
snip /
Ok, I posted this almost 12 hours ago, I just wondered can somebody help
please?
Hi John,
we are all volunteers and normal people on this list offering advice
for free.
If someone has a suggestion to help you I'm sure they will read and
On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:44:29 Alan Bell wrote:
ah, interesting, this is new information. A fresh install of Lucid does
not show grub at all unless you hold shift, although thinking about it
it might have to for dual boot setups. At the top of the grub screen it
should list the version
On 10/06/10 19:33, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 10/06/10 19:08, John Matthews wrote:
snip /
Ok, I posted this almost 12 hours ago, I just wondered can somebody help
please?
Hi John,
we are all volunteers and normal people on this list offering advice
for free.
If someone has a
On 10 June 2010 23:28, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
On 10/06/10 23:21, Alan Bell wrote:
John Matthews wrote:
Ok, I dont know what else I can tell you. What I have told is all that
happens. I click on the recover link under the kernal when in the grub,
and it freezes after about
John Matthews wrote:
I have actually asked if I could get some paid help, and all I got was
this pre written e-mail sent telling nothing useful.
John
Another thing you could do if you want a more interactive conversation
(which the rapid emails indicate that you might) is to get on
On 10/06/10 19:33, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 10/06/10 19:08, John Matthews wrote:
snip /
Ok, I posted this almost 12 hours ago, I just wondered can somebody help
please?
Hi John,
we are all volunteers and normal people on this list offering advice
for free.
If someone has a
John Matthews wrote:
Yes, but unfortunately, that hasnt been a very good option for me
either. I prefer the e-mail to be honest.
John
Email is good when you just want one answer to a question. If you want
someone to help you do something then IRC is better. People don't reply
to emails
On 10/06/10 21:19, Alan Bell wrote:
John Matthews wrote:
Yes, but unfortunately, that hasnt been a very good option for me
either. I prefer the e-mail to be honest.
John
Email is good when you just want one answer to a question. If you want
someone to help you do something
On 10/06/10 19:33, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 10/06/10 19:08, John Matthews wrote:
snip /
Ok, I posted this almost 12 hours ago, I just wondered can somebody help
please?
Hi John,
we are all volunteers and normal people on this list offering advice
for free.
If someone has a
John Matthews wrote:
It also kind of negates this 'Improving Support' thread really, doesnt
it, nothing has really changed has it, the same thing comes across, you
are all 'just' volunteers, which you do push down peoples throats. I
wish I could something about it, I would like to be able
On 10/06/10 20:50, Alan Bell wrote:
One interesting effect of the group support vs one on one support is
that with group support if there is some weird problem that nobody
understands (which may be down to the way it is described) then you get
silence as a response, rather than I haven't got
John Matthews wrote:
What is the point of having IRC chat and this e-mail chat, when nobody
is prepared to help. Its kind of really a piss take when you get threads
that talk about changing the way support is given, but all you get is
those same people can just barely post to take you to
On 10/06/10 23:00, Chris Rowson wrote:
What is the point of having IRC chat and this e-mail chat, when nobody
is prepared to help. Its kind of really a piss take when you get threads
that talk about changing the way support is given, but all you get is
those same people can just barely post to
On 10/06/10 23:04, Alan Bell wrote:
I would encourage you to take steps that would lead to more information
being available, the more information you can provide the more likely it
is that someone will understand what is occurring. Installing a small
dual boot partition might provide
John Matthews wrote:
The grub appears as its booting up. It has a list of two kernels with
recvoery underneath and a few other things, including the xp partition,
that I tried getting help for months ago, but that didnt get anywhere
either. I then learnt by accident, that this grub had a
On 10/06/10 21:19, Alan Bell wrote:
Email is good when you just want one answer to a question. If you want
someone to help you do something then IRC is better. People don't reply
to emails saying I have no idea because it isn't a particularly useful
response and a few hours later someone else
On 10/06/10 22:39, Chris Rowson wrote:
John Matthews wrote:
Isnt it funny really, you are all too busy to answer an e-mail, because
you are all volunteers, yet you arent too busy to chat quite avidly
about games and things like that on IRC. From what I see that happens
all day on IRC.
John Matthews wrote:
Isnt it funny really, you are all too busy to answer an e-mail, because
you are all volunteers, yet you arent too busy to chat quite avidly
about games and things like that on IRC. From what I see that happens
all day on IRC. No wonder you dont have the time.
Yep,
On 10/06/10 19:33, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 10/06/10 19:08, John Matthews wrote:
snip /
Ok, I posted this almost 12 hours ago, I just wondered can somebody help
please?
Hi John,
we are all volunteers and normal people on this list offering advice
for free.
If someone has a
John Matthews wrote:
Ok, I dont know what else I can tell you. What I have told is all that
happens. I click on the recover link under the kernal when in the grub,
and it freezes after about 20 secs. Nothing else happens, no script
comes up, no other boxes, I cannot get into a terminal. It
John Matthews wrote:
Isnt it funny really, you are all too busy to answer an e-mail, because
you are all volunteers, yet you arent too busy to chat quite avidly
about games and things like that on IRC. From what I see that happens
all day on IRC. No wonder you dont have the time.
Yep,
On 10/06/10 21:03, Alan Bell wrote:
John Matthews wrote:
I have actually asked if I could get some paid help, and all I got was
this pre written e-mail sent telling nothing useful.
John
Another thing you could do if you want a more interactive conversation
(which the rapid
John Matthews wrote:
Yes I have tried using the answer system, and posting questions, but
havent been able to get an answer. I got told a couple of weeks ago
somebody on here had an answer, and was going to post a video to help.
But, as I posted earlier, nothing has been done, which is why
John Matthews wrote:
On 10/06/10 23:04, Alan Bell wrote:
I would encourage you to take steps that would lead to more information
being available, the more information you can provide the more likely it
is that someone will understand what is occurring. Installing a small
dual boot
What is the point of having IRC chat and this e-mail chat, when nobody
is prepared to help. Its kind of really a piss take when you get threads
that talk about changing the way support is given, but all you get is
those same people can just barely post to take you to task, yet they
cant be
On 10/06/10 23:21, Alan Bell wrote:
John Matthews wrote:
Ok, I dont know what else I can tell you. What I have told is all that
happens. I click on the recover link under the kernal when in the grub,
and it freezes after about 20 secs. Nothing else happens, no script
comes up, no other
John Matthews wrote:
Ok, I dont know what else I can tell you.
Post the contents of /boot/grub/grub.cfg
The difference between the default boot line (which works, yes?) and the
recovery line should only be the options at the end of the lines which
specify the linux kernel and options. If you
On 10 June 2010 22:39, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote:
John Matthews wrote:
Ok, I dont know what else I can tell you.
Post the contents of /boot/grub/grub.cfg
The difference between the default boot line (which works, yes?) and the
recovery line should only be the options at the
ah, interesting, this is new information. A fresh install of Lucid does
not show grub at all unless you hold shift, although thinking about it
it might have to for dual boot setups. At the top of the grub screen it
should list the version number of grub. Does it start with 1.98?
Alan.
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