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Removing Recovery Partitions from Dell Laptop
I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7 and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know ...
Message posted on the July 14th, 2012 - 11:59 AM ET
New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7
I bought a new Toshiba Satellite laptop with Windows 7 installed. The moment I opened it up, it went into its automatic setup procedure and installed Windows 7 from a recovery partition. There weren't many options available during setup (choose ...
Message posted on the February 3rd, 2012 - 2:52 PM ET
Bug#673976: grub2: [INTL:fi] grub2: Updated Finnish translation
This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug. MIME-Version: 1.0 Package: grub2 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i patch l10n Dear Maintainer, Please update the debian/po/fi.po file in grub2 bzr repo with the attached updated version, in order ...
Message posted on the May 22nd, 2012 - 7:10 AM ET
User locked out?
I just installed 10.04/32bit for a neighbour (and young son) on her fairly old but reasonable spec Vaio laptop. The actual installation went ok (including shuffling / resizing the XP / NTFS partitions to make space), I installed restricted-extras ...
Message posted on the April 24th, 2012 - 4:32 AM ET
Bug#563602: mdadm: autocheck running checkarray fails and degrades array when weekly cron jobs tick off
Package: mdadm Version: 2.6.7.2-3 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Because of the size of the media being checked, the "checkarray" instance that was invoked at 0057 had not yet completed when the usual weekly ...
Message posted on the January 3rd, 2010 - 7:40 PM ET
Bug#553922: "cryptsetup: lvm is not available" lock up at boot
This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug. MIME-Version: 1.0 Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.31-1 Severity: serious Hi kernel maintainer, starting with kernel 2.6.30-2, my boot process lock up with the message "cryptsetup: lvm is ...
Message posted on the November 2nd, 2009 - 4:50 AM ET
My Win 7 Experience
Well, I tried Win 7 today and here is what I did. The system is a HP with AMD quad proc, COTS from BestBuy. Came with Vista Premium and is new, runs Vista OK after I turned off the power conservation sleep mode on the system. Turns out sleep/wake ...
Message posted on the November 14th, 2009 - 9:10 PM ET
Linux 2.6.39
So it's delayed a few days, and I really was struggling with the decision of whether I wanted to cut a final release at all: it could easily have made more sense to just do an -rc8. However, since I'm going to be at LinuxCon Japan in two weeks, the ...
Message posted on the May 19th, 2011 - 1:10 AM ET
A newbie question - trying to resize a given 15GB vdi file to a bigger one
Hello group :) I originally posted this question in the Ruby on Rails talk group but thought I should go ahead and ask it here as well (anybody who sees this twice - sorry for multiple posts) I am very new to Linux (using it about a week or so.. ...
Message posted on the July 16th, 2010 - 4:02 AM ET
Linux 2.6.34-rc3
Ok, so -rc2 was messy, no question about it. I'm too much of a softie to hold back some peoples work, so my hard-line -rc1 didn't work out the way I wanted. But _next_ time! For sure this time. Anyway, from a messy -rc2 we now have a -rc3 that ...
Message posted on the March 30th, 2010 - 2:00 PM ET
Bug#565706: grub2 enters rescue mode with "fd0 cannot get C/H/S values"
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98~20100128-1.2 Severity: normal I am seeing the same problem: grub reports this on startup and then gets no further: error: fd0 cannot get C/H/S values. entering rescue mode My system has three RAID1 md partitions ...
Message posted on the February 18th, 2010 - 1:40 PM ET
xp will not boot in any mode
It started about 3 weeks ago . I thought it was a virus, one day i had trouble after installing the demo version of CU3 Adobe package of products for testing out illustrator. My machine became slow and unresponsive ,so i uninstalled it and many ...
Message posted on the January 9th, 2010 - 8:00 PM ET
Bug#539406: linux-image-2.6.30-1-alpha-smp: fails to load fw for 1st scsi adapter
This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug. MIME-Version: 1.0 Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-alpha-smp Version: 2.6.30-2 Severity: important Well, the firmware loading logic has been flaky on my system for a few releases now. I ...
Message posted on the July 31st, 2009 - 11:50 AM ET