Can you help me figure out why I can't get Grub to install from netinstall cd's?

For the last several days I have been attempting to install Wheezy from one of the daily builds. I have tried four different builds (different days)- and they all fail in the same two spots- they won't recognize my removable medium (usb thumbdrive) ...

Message posted on the August 30th, 2011 - 10:20 PM ET

Re: Please Make It More Like Linux!

On Wednesday, March 2, 2011 2:34:42 AM UTC-5, Gregory Shearman wrote: On 2011-03-02, JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> wrote: > On 2011-03-02, amicus_curious <ac...@sti.net> wrote: >> "Chris Ahlstrom" ...

Message posted on the March 2nd, 2011 - 8:24 AM ET

Bug#641167: base: Any call to mount returns /dev/ : No such device

Package: base Severity: grave Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? While attempting to mount a second hard disk which contains some data I recieved "No such device" error. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was ...

Message posted on the September 10th, 2011 - 7:50 PM ET

Bootloaders (LILO, GRUB, GRUB2, MS windows) - compare/contrast etc

Background: I've got a machine with mucked up dual boot from attempting to get full install on a USB from a Ubuntu 10.10 live cd. GRUB2 ended up on my hard drive, all else on USB stick. Got confusing and confused(responder didn't pay attention to ...

Message posted on the February 6th, 2012 - 8:36 AM ET

Re: One Thing I like About Linux.

On Thursday, February 3, 2011 10:25:41 PM UTC-5, Mark S wrote: It's consistent. No other operating system has consistently failed to attract the average consumer like Linux has. And yet, in the same amount of time it took Microsoft to get to ...

Message posted on the February 4th, 2011 - 1:56 AM ET

Bug#650635: unetbootin: Android x86 gives "missing operating system" error

Package: unetbootin Version: 563-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream UNetbootin doesn't create functional bootable media from Android-x86 .iso images. It goes through all the normal steps, but booting from the resulting drive, on the exact hardware ...

Message posted on the December 1st, 2011 - 10:30 AM ET

Broken suspend to RAM on Asus P8P67-M motherboard (bad BIOS?)

I have an Asus P8P67-M Pro motherboard which fails to suspend to ram under Linux yet suspends successfully under Windows 7. Under Windows 7, suspending results in the typical slowly blinking power light, and the system wakes up correctly. Under ...

Message posted on the December 28th, 2011 - 6:40 PM ET

Ping Frank

You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, you couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions printed on the heel. You are a canker, an open wound. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. ...

Message posted on the January 10th, 2011 - 10:25 AM ET

[GIT PULL] First round of SCSI updates for 2.6.39 merge window

This represents the usual round of driver updates (fcoe, lpfc, qla2xxx, bnx2i, mpt2sas/fusion, iscsi, bnx2fc, be2iscsi, mvsas and hpsa) plus a new fc module for the in-kernel target infrastructure and final removal of the SCSI serial number, which ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2011 - 6:50 AM ET

attempting boot hard