I have got rid of windows 7 of my laptop and installed Ubuntu 10.10. So for the past week or so have done a lot o testing and stuff. Laptop I have is hp pavilion tx 2000 model tx 2130ea. Problem I have is laptop wont boot when unplugged but boots when plugged in. When it starts up you can hear the logo music but screen remains black. Now I have found what the problem is after hours of fault finding. Ubuntu detects the additional drivers to download wireless driver etc., and a couple of nvidia 2d/3d drivers so its when one these nvidia drivers are installed is what causes the problem when booting up unplugged. No problem when plugged in. At the moment I just have not installed these nividia drivers and all is good. Graphics Card Nvidia Geforce Go 6150.
I installed ubuntu 10.10 and it seems everytime I unplug my laptop it freezes and the caps lock flashes. This happens pretty much every time. I installed fedora 14 had no problem with unplugging the charger but I didn't like it and couldn't get WiFi working right. So I installed ubuntu 10.10 hoping it would be gone and I have the same problem again. I have a AMD Athlon II Dual-Core Processor M300 (32-bit) 3GB DDR2 memory 320GB HDD (5400rpm)
When my Western Digital MyBook is plugged into my desktop machine via usb everything works fine. The computer boots up normally to the dual boot screen, and all OS options will boot up normally. However, if I unplug the external hdd (whether that be when the computer is off, or I unmount it and then restart) before I get to the dual boot screen I get an error message informing me that I have incorrect boot media, and to insert and hit any key. Some background: I have checked the bios and it is set up to boot from the internal sata hdd as the first boot device, and there are no usb boot devices defined. Prior to making this a dual boot machine, it ran windows only, and had no issues booting when the external hdd was unplugged.
My Fedora 15 is not boot properly when ethernet is unplugged.It is kind of blocked and the moment I plug in the ethernet, it work fine.I have attached the /var/log/messages, there is time gap of 1 min 30 sec, that is when i plugged in the ethernet.Can i anyone tell which service is blocking exactly.
I ended up inheriting an IBM Intellistation Z Pro desktop with Red Hat 2.6.9-78.0.17.EL, that used to be part of a company network (hard IP, domain, etc). I'm trying to boot and connect to my home internet provider.With or without ethernet cable connected, the boot process seems to timeout on a number of steps (system logger, NFS Statd, automount5) and eventually get's stuck in NFS quotas.I started looking at /etc (in single user mode) and of course there are a bunch of files (hosts, resolv.conf, etc) with hard IPs, domains, etc.My questions are:- how hard is to change network setting to use soft IP and be able to connect to my provider
After installing ubuntu 9.10 on external HDD I cannot boot vista if external usb is unplugged(where ubuntu is installed). it says grub loading and after that recover grub ( i think that is what is says ... not certain in this moment ) anyway hope you get my dilemma. If you need more information I'll be glad to provide it.
So basically, as rookie as it sounds, I spent about 3 days trying to figure out why my computer wouldn't boot (BIOS not found, then it ran grub rescue) until I saw that my external hard drive (which evidently somehow has some file on) was unplugged. I am running windows and ubuntu 10.4 on partitions on my computer's internal 120gb drive. The problem I have is that during these 3 days, I re-installed ubuntu on the drive from the CD- so I think I have 3 partitions, even though the 3rd does not show up as an option to boot into from startup.
What it does show though, is on my desktop I have 2 mounted drives: One 52gb one that has my Windows files in it, and one 44gb one that has ubuntu files in it, but NOT the ones I use- this is the rogue copy I installed by "accident". I checked this by looking through the contents and it was all minimal (nothing in home folder). How do I "remove" this partition safely, and return to having just a windows an ubuntu partition?
I just noticed this issue today but when I unplug my laptop from its adapter, the battery loses 44% of its battery immediately, Is there any way of solving this?
I've been asked to look at a system which is running slowly. It's running hardy on an intel Q9400 quad core CPU system which should be a pretty fast machine.
The most obvious symptom of this problem is that the terminal takes about 10 seconds to open instead of the usual fraction of a second.
What I've discovered so far is that the system has 2 network ports one configured to access the LAN and the other to connect directly to another piece of hardware using a different subnet. If the LAN is not connected the system runs slowly and if it is connected it runs at normal speed. It also makes no difference whether or not the second network port is connected.
I've looked at the system monitor and can see no abnormal network traffic or processes using a lot of CPU resources.
I have some years experience of linux & programming, but I don't really know whats "under the hood" in a PC. I decided to learn. I have two hard drive disks in one of my computers, so I decided to see if I could run it with only one. I removed the voltage from one of the hard drive disks and when I booted, of course the cumputer gave me the message: "Disk failure, insert system disk and restart". When I reconnected the HDD in my computer and booted once again, I got the same message.
This brings me to my first question: Why can't I start my computer as usual after unplugging and replugging one of my two hard drive disks? All cables remains the same, what has changed? The first question remained unanswered and I tried to install a OS on one of the HDDs when the other was disconnected. This worked fine and I set up a windows/debian dual boot. Perfect! But after reconnecting the disconnected HDD I tried to do the same thing (so I would install a new version of the system I started out with, a windows/debian dual boot). I formatted and installed windows on one of my HDDs again. It was bootable.
When I installed debian and let the installer set up Grub, I got the message "Missing operating system" when booting. I tried to install only linux (without windows) and I reached the same resault: after unplugging and replugging one of my 2 HDDs I can no longer boot a debian operating system, though the installation runs without a problem. What has happened? What do I need to do to be able to install a working debian system on this computer? (installing windows works fine) Has the settings of my BIOS changed when I unplugged?
I accidentally unplugged my usb drive before unmounting it. In windows this is no big deal, so I'm used to that. However, I'm finding that in Kubuntu 10.04 this is a big deal. Now I can't mount any other drives unless I use the command line. Also, I can't unmount anything, even if I mount it on the command line.
What do i do? I know a reboot will fix this, but if it happens again i will be right back at this point. It should not take a full reboot just to unmount a drive. I have tried umount -l and umount -f and the terminal window just hangs.
I received a new Cyberpower CP1000PFCLCD UPS today. I let it charge for about 6 hours.My server is a former desktop PC with the following specs:MSI MotherboardAMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU768 MB DDR RAMDual 80 GB HDD running RAID 1 (Disk Mirroring)After shutting the server, router, and backup drive down and plugging in the UPS, I did the UNPLUG test where you unplug the UPS to see if everything stays on.My Router and Backup disk both stayed powered on, but the Server immediately rebooted.Does anybody have any ideas how I can fix the server rebooting problem? It should be staying on just as everything else.
I formatted the USB flash drive using Karmic's Format Disk utility (right-click on a volume, select "Format..."), and selected "Encrypted, compatible with Linux (FAT)" from the "Type" drop-down menu.It mounts correctly when I plug it in, and I can access the files just fine.When I unplug the Flash drive without using the 'Safely Remove Drive' option, the icon on my desktop changes its name to '2.0 GB Encrypted', instead of disappearing and unmounting like my unencrypted Flash drives do.
I would like to have encrypted Flash drive treated in the same way as my unencrypted Flash drives, which disappear and unmount when unplugged, even if the 'Remove Safely' menu option isn't used. What can I do to accomplish this?NOTES:When I plug the encrypted Flash drive in, the following line shows up in the output of 'mount'. 'secure' is the name I gave the disk during the format process:
Code: /dev/mapper/devkit-disks-luks-uuid-302db16c-c6e2-4dd9-a259-436437c76475-uid1005 on /media/secure type vfat
I am using a Laptop with Fedora 12 and got a recent issue with the power management. I am not sure if this issue is Fedora-related, thereforeI have a (relatively) new main battery in my laptop and a (relatively) new Ac adapter (both not older than 6 months). Besides, a second battery is installed. Recently, I took out the second battery because I needed to use the CD rom drive. Then I put back the second battery (when the laptop was off, of corse).
After I switched the Laptop on again, everything works fine unless the laptop is thinking I am unplugging and plugging in the AC adapter every 3 seconds or so. I can see that behavior when clicking on the battery symbol, as the following terms change every few seconds:AC Adapter: Plugged inAC Adapter: Not Plugged inAlso I notice that the batteries are much slower charged than before when the laptop is operating, and even slower or halting when the laptop is powered off.
Whenever I plug in my PSPgo via USB, it shows up in Nautilus as:
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The first line is the system's onboard memory, and the second line is my 16 gig memory card. It used to mount as:
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I *cannot* unmount the drive. The computer does not seem to be able to find the mount point to take it off from. When I unmount from Nautilus, it says:
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Error unmounting:
If I just unplug the drive, the entry in /media remains as 1C[glitchy box thing][series of underscores] (see screenshot)
I tried looking at the drive in gparted, and it says:
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Is my PSPgo becoming corrupt or something? That would be supremely unpleasant. I'd definitely like to avoid that, if at all possible.
Have been running ubuntu for sometime now and love its functionality...However since a recent update have the following issues..When I power on the laptop I get the toshiba logo followed by grub loading with the message ' invalid enviroment block" "unable to load default boot entries". When I then try to run the laptop off a LiveCd, the ubuntu splash screen appears with the loading process bar (horizontal line) displayed..however it then appears to display a black screen with no further activity..Now all of this is via an external monitor as my laptop screen shows no activity right from the very start with just a blank screen....so am really stuck here wondering if its a harware/software issue or a combination of both...
I plug a USB device, it gets a /dev entry, e.g. sdf, i mount its filesystem, then some program opens a file on this filesystem. I unplug this device, its /dev entry disappears, but if i replug this device again, it gets another name - sdg.
How can i force the program to close the file so the filesystem is ready to be unmounted without using "lazy unmount" to release the device name, BUT so that the program doesn't crash after trying to make I/O to this file, and, of course, without having to kill the program?
I tried to install 11.3 on my acer aspire 7530 notebook to have dual boot with xp.
I made 4 partitions: one for xp, and the three for linux were made automatically.Before installation I got the warning that the partition wasn't entirely below 128 gb, I installed anyway to give it a try.
The installation froze at 92% and after the laptop wouldn't boot.
Now I've formatted the hard disk and installed windows on a partition leaving a free un formatted partition of 100 gb.
I just installed ubuntu on my laptop the problem is after i press restart the cd comes out and it said to press enter which i did then the computer restarts and loads some kind of command prompt it asks me for user name than password i log in but after that i dont know what to do it dosent even boot to main screen.
I tried with ubutu desktop 64X and netbook still no luck...Im using sony vaio laptop its 64X 4gb ram 320 hardrive
I boot linux from a usb drive so I can carry my distro wherever I go - I've been doing it for quite some time now and it's always worked wonderfully. Problem: This morning my little cousin unplugged the computer WHILE I was booting into linux. Power loss has happened before, but with no ill effects. This time however, it's decided it won't boot. The screen clears, and just as GRUB is about to load, it freezes and the computer reboots over and over.
I booted to a LiveCD of Ubuntu to try and fsck the drive, but it won't mount the volume. I've worked with this install so long, and have customized it so much I **really** don't want to do a reinstall.. What can I do?
I have been working on this for 2 days and I am ready give this one up!! I have an old 'hp omnibook 6000' It's an Intel mother board. I believe it has 4 or 5 GB hard drive. 512 RAM, put that in myself. I can load live-cd's and all is good. I have tried: Xubuntu-alternate 7.04 and the desktop cd. Puppy Linux loaded up ok and all was working. Dam Small Linux loaded ok. Each time I reboot after install of mentioned os, all I get is a flashing cursor upon reboot. I know each one installed as gparted has shown me. When I install I 'erase and use entire disk'.
I just recently bought a Toshiba L505-ES5033 and can not get ubuntu (or fedora 12 32 or 64) to boot from the live cd, or install. I can get to the initial menu that asks me if I want to try without changes and all that but from that point nothing really. If I choose any options other than the help option it runs through some scripts and gives me an error. The error refuses to stay on the screen despite my constant demands that it does; all I THINK I can make out is MIRR... configuration error. Fedora tells me something entirely different. After this error it goes to a faded black screen and I can hear my HDD making angry sounds.
I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 set up in dual-boot on my laptop. Since I am giving this laptop to someone who has no need for Ubuntu at the end of the summer, I wanted to change the Grub boot menu so that Win7 will load immediately and skip the menu. However, I still want Ubuntu to remain on the computer. I read that holding shift during or after the boot splash would force the menu to load, but that doesn't seem to be working for me. I could fix this if I had access to the Ubuntu side, but alas, I don't. I just tried loading up a Live CD and editing the /etc/default/grub file, but I can't run update-grub afterwards.
Since my wife just bought a new laptop I decided to polish her old (decrepit) machine a little and let my daughter have it. It was dual partitioned XP and Ubuntu 8.04 (which worked flawlessly). I figured that since it was older I'd load Xubuntu. I made a DVD of Xubuntu 10.04 that passed checksum. When I tried to boot from the DVD I got as far as the menu asking me if I wanted to boot from the DVD, install from the DVD, etc. Whatever I picked the machine seemed to think a while, then hang on a black screen.
So, I got an Ubuntu 10.04 CD from a book I'd just bought, and tried that. It behaved identically- after the option menu whether I tried to boot from CD or install, it hung on a black screen. So, I booted 8.04, and fired up the Update Manager, and loaded all recommended updates (as is generally my habit). Then I clicked the button to update to 10.04, all of which progressed as expected over the course of a few hours, until the reboot. At this point it did the same thing! GRUB loads, and I pick Ubuntu 10.04, then I get the word "Ubuntu" in the middle of the screen with several dots under it (the boot splash?) for a split second, then it hangs on a black screen.
If I boot Ubuntu 10.04 in recovery mode that DOES seem to work, and I get a command prompt. But fixing this via command prompt is WAY beyond my weak Ubuntu kung-fu.
The machine is:
Averatec 1000 series Intel Celeron (R)M 1.00GHz 504MB RAM Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME graphics controller Which seems to meet minimum system requirements. Oh, and XP SP3 boots just fine.
But I'd be happy if I could single-install some version of Ubuntu, and screw the dual-boot capability with XP, if that makes any difference.
I tested a month ago with my bro's PC and really liked it a lot. I downloaded 10.10 version from net. But i found out that my CD ROM drive is not able to read any CDs any more and my laptop doesn't have USB boot option. My laptop is a Pentium 4 with 1.5 GB RAM and is running Windows XP Professional SP 3. I have created 15 GB unallocated space for Ubuntu but don't know how to install in this situation.
I recently bought my self a Acer aspire 5552G, and now I'm trying to get the latest Ubuntu on it. I put the ubuntu on a USB drive and inserted it to my laptop. I changed boot orders so that all USB devices would come first. Now if I changed only one USB device to boot first (the one where my USB was inserter, as it indicated it had SanDisc in it) It didn't do anything, it still booted up the Linpus linux ditro wich was installed on the laptop when I got it. It has no GUI and I can't do anything with it.
If I changed all USB devices to the top list of booting, the laptop started and then a text comes on the screen : SYSLINUX 4.03 2010-10-22 EDD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al. And now it just stays like that and no matter what I press, nothing happens.
Laptop HP G62-140US - BIOS Hewlette-Packard F.07, 10/2/2010.
Has Windows 7 Home 64 bit. Processor Intel i-3 2.1 GHz. Memory 4 GB. Hard disk 250 GB
Was not able to boot Ubuntu 9.04 from the DVD drive ('Broken Bios' error). Was able to boot Ubuntu 10.10 Seemed OK and so made a USB stick for booting.
This also worked on 2 occasions and after about a week cannot boot either from DVD drive or from USB stick. No upgradation of BIOS or Windows 7 was made.
Trying to boot from DVD drive got 'Broken Bios' error and with USB the error screen goes off too quickly and therefter the loading goes for ever.
