I have Ubuntu installed on a separate drive. Dual boot with win XP. It was working out fine..Then, and I don't remember exactly when, the boot process was interrupted saying Drive 2 not found..the Ubuntu drive. So I press F2 and enter BIOS setup. I have to cycle through the drives to #2, select 'on', then leave BIOS setup. OK so far..I can confuse myself.. Anyhow, my computer will then continue to the Dual boot screenWindows will load fine, but Ubuntu goes to a command line screen for grub>.When I push 'Esc' I go to a screen with several commands listed, most of which return me to the grub> prompt..the 'reboot' command sends me back through the Bios process, the 'halt' command shuts down the computer. Grub> wants something and I don't know what it is. Do you think I'll have to reinstall? Bad hard drive?I'd like to get my Ubuntu back really just getting to get a feel for the system.
So I tried to install Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire ASE380 desktop, and I think during the partition portion. I think I messed up the hard drive.
Now my computer won't recognize my hard drive. I've tried using the acer repair disks I made, I tried unplugging and checking all the cords and lines, I tired flashing the BIOS, I've tried using other boot disks like Ultimate boot CD, and Acer support is no help either.
I really don't know what to do now. It shows nothing in the boot setup or the BIOS set up. I've also tired the ALT - F10 for acer computers to enter and repair partition and nothing.
I just want to get this thing up and running. I'm tempted to just buy a new hard drive.
No matter what i put into the drive be it a music cd, a dvd, or a game, my computer WILL NOT recognize it. It's like it doesn't even exist to my computer I'm trying to play rollercoaster tycoon and this is causing a slight problem
Is it possible to have a tri-boot system ? I currently have a dual bootsystem on mydesktop. Win XP & Ubuntu. I want to add SUSE 11.2 but don't know how to go about loading it onto my machine. On restart the computer does not recognize the CD in my rom drive and only asks if I won't to load Windows or Ubuntu. How do I go about adding another OS to my hard drive ? I have an old Gateway with 130Gb hard drive and plenty of unallocated drive space and 512Mb of Ram. I use Windows rarely (almost never but do need it for some applications) and mostly rely on Ubuntu which my wife and I both like and use daily but I want to look at and experience other Linux installations as well
My Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 on my Asus EEE PC 1000HE computer does not recognize SD card."sudo fdisk -l" command does not result anything related to SD card even when the card is in the slot.
How do I get Bitpim to work on my lg vu cu920 phone on Ubuntu 10.04? I have the data cable. I seen serval peoples said they got it to work but they never said how. I set the phone to the lg-vx8700. Sometime I get ports that will be open and then not. It doesn't mount under the mass storage. Would be awesome if someone on here could explain how they did it. Believe me I looked all over google and the forums and they all talk about they got it to work but no further details. Can't really bring up really old threads on here.
I just installed a new keyboard in my father's Windows 7 PC, and the computer will recognize it, but won't function! Is there some way (preferably open-source) that I can get this keyboard to work? It works completely fine on my Ubuntu 11.04 machine.The keyboard is not from a big manufacturer, but it's model number is W-9868. I already looked for an official driver and I got nothing.
I am having a problem installing Fedora from a CD.When I put the installation CD into the drive and restart the computer, the computer does not recognize the CD and boots automatically into my old version (version 8) of Fedora.I have already made sure that the CD drive comes before the HDD drive in my BIOS settings, and I have already tried using different CDs.
I have a gateway laptop that I have attempted to dual boot, but the computer only sees the Ubuntu OS and the Vista Windows Recovery Partition. (Actually, gnome reports 3 separate Ubuntu OSs... part of the problem?)
When I type fdisk -l, I get the following message code...
I'm trying to get our linux servers to use Active Directory (AD), and have gotten our linux (RHEL 5) server to fetch users and groups from AD. Now I'd like to add computers (and groups of computers) to AD, and have our linux boxes make use of this info. Does anyone know how to get our linux-boxes to understand computers and computer group objects on AD?
I have a dual boot installation of ubuntu and windows vista. After upgrading to Karmic I haven't been able to access to the CD drive. How can I use it? The following error message is displayed when I click on Places --> cdrom0:"mount: special device /dev/scd0 does not exist"I am about reinstalling the whole OS, but for that I need the CD
I installed Vista on sdb1 and later Ubuntu on sda1.
When I boot up, I am given choice of OS's to boot into. That worked fine until I formatted sdb1 and installed Windows 7.
Now when I boot, I am given the exact same options as before, and when I select the the old "Vista" Menu item, it gives me an error that it can not find some long serial number. The number is not my drive serial number. That number is completely different.
I can still boot into Ubuntu with out a problem.
Now, in order for me to boot into windows, I have change the BIOS boot order. That is obviously not ideal.
I've been trying for hours now to get Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Remix onto my HP Mini 1030NR. It boots up fine from the flash drive, but then when I go to install UNR on the hard drive I get through the first 3 steps and then get stuck. It goes to the "Prepare partitions" screen but no devices are shown to be partitioned. I formatted the hard drive I'm trying to install on on another computer to NTFS, so it should be blank and ready to go? I should probably mention the drive doesn't show up in GParted either. Is there something obvious I'm overlooking?
I've tried the methods suggested in this thread to no avail: [URL]
Since using Ubuntu, I have always been amazed that I can plug a drive formatted on a Mac or PC, into a Ubuntu machine and it will see the files on the drive. Why is it that Ubuntu can do this and Windows can't unless you install special software so that you can read Mac or Ubuntu formatted drives on a PC. I really like this ability of Ubuntu a lot!!
I intend to install ubuntu server 10.04 on an IBM blade server x3550 m3. The server has two SAS and two SATA II hard drives, each configured as RAID 1 through a ServeRAID m1015 card. However, ubuntu didn't recognize any hard drives at the installation.
Is there a way that I can load raid driver (if exists) during installing Ubuntu?
I'm usually an Arch Linux Fellow so I have little experience with Debian based systems. I'm installing Ubuntu 10.10 on this laptop for my mum, everything works fine apart from the DVD drive. It refuses to detect DVDs at all (I've tried 8 different ones). It grinds and grumbles at me and makes all sorts of ungodly noises. The drive works fine mechanically as it's been used before under Arch and I used it to install Ubuntu yesterday. I've installed all the relevant codec packages and other odds and ends to play DVDs with, but still nothing.
I am trying to install Ubuntu 11.04 64bit on my computer, I downloaded it onto my flashdrive from [URL]... When I reach the installation screen all the boxes are checked except 4.4Gb of space available, I know I have enough space because I am using a 1TB hard drive, I also have Windows 7 installed and it recognizes my hard drive. I have tried this with my hard drive partitioned and unpartitioned. I only have 1 hard drive and it has never been part of a raid array. I've also looked on google and the Ubuntu forums and still can't find anything relevant
I have fedora 11 installed and fully updated, but im trying to burn the upgrade cd to fedroa 12. Using brasreo disk burner thing it says "no available disk" and i dont know why. This is a fresh install of 11 just updated. Any ideas? maby a cd driv driver?
Is there any way to make windows recognise my second hard drive (Which is fully exclusive to ubuntu) and access it? Iv'e been getting a few BSOD's since installing ubuntu and I'm pretty sure it's because windows keeps trying to access it and failing.
I've bought new PC, and installed win 7 first. Then i've resized my disc and left the half of it unallocated for my ubuntu. But the ubuntu installer doesnt see my hard disk. when i run fdisc -l, the only thing that i see is my usb from wich i'm booting. I know that this is a common problem, searched for help on the web for hours and nothing worked.
I browsed through the forums last night for several hours looking for a solution to this and nothing specific to 10.10 came up but i tried several of the methods suggested for previous versions yet none of them seemed to help. the disk spins up when inserted but ubuntu doesn't even show that the drive exist .
Using Ubuntu 10.10, and a Aopen CD/DVD Drive, that when purchased it was suppose to read and write to everything. But my system will not recognize blank DVD-R or RW. Everything works on the CD's writing/reading. I can play DVD movies, but thats it.
After many searches I found these posts and checked them out without any problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...light=DVD+disk
DVD Writer not detecting DVD-Rs http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&pp=50&page=12
I followed the Medibuntu instructions on http://www.medibuntu.org/ and that did not help either.
I purchased four different purchases of DVDs to make sure the problem was not the disks. I had that happen to me a few time with CDs.
I do not get any errors of any kind. The drive light goes on and off like it should.
My 13 year old Pentium 3 1.3 ghz machine is finally ready to call it quits. specifically, my slave drive where all of my music is stored. I can access a very small portion of the the files on the HD, The files are still there but are not showing up. any ideas on how I could access this drive. I wanted to try to reinstall my os on the primary drive in hopes that it wouldget it working, unfortunately I've run into what's seems to be a common problem of my usb keyboard not being recognized.
There are 3 IDE drives in this box. hda has Debian Lenny installed (with swap) and is to remain. hdb1 has a linux distro on it. hdb2 is a data partition and is to remain. No other partitions on hdb. HDD is data only (not really relevant but mentioned for completeness) The system boots via Grub from MBR on hda.
I'm trying to install F10-i686-KDE-LiveCD on hdb1 but F10 won't allow it without modifying the partition tables which will, of course, wipe my data on hdb2. hdb seems to be a happy disk; e2fsck shows it clean and both partitions open properly in Konqueror within the LliveCD.
