<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Don't worry. Not my real last name. My older brother Dave made it up years ago ... there's a story there but not now.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 6/14/11, jimbo <I><evesautomotive@wavecable.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: jimbo <evesautomotive@wavecable.com><BR>Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Speaking of no boot.......<BR>To: "lugod's technical discussion forum" <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org><BR>Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 8:04 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Oops, sorry about the mispelling of you name Dr Scronek. Didn't mean no <BR>disrespect.<BR><BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "jimbo" <<A href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=evesautomotive@wavecable.com" ymailto="mailto:evesautomotive@wavecable.com">evesautomotive@wavecable.com</A>><BR>To: "lugod's technical discussion forum" <<A href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vox-tech@lists.lugod.org" ymailto="mailto:vox-tech@lists.lugod.org">vox-tech@lists.lugod.org</A>><BR>Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 7:59 AM<BR>Subject: [vox-tech] Speaking of no boot.......<BR><BR><BR>>I too have had a problem with my Linux drive and as Dr. Schronek I am not<BR>> comfortable with the whole shell/bash thing. Did I say that right?<BR>><BR>> I did notice something very interesting though...I d/l the latest and<BR>> greatest version of Ubuntu and burned image to disk. I then
went to live <BR>> X<BR>> mode and used the option of repair instead of install. It worked and I<BR>> found that I now have a working Ubuntu OS. Problem was that since I <BR>> didn't<BR>> change the boot order of my hard drives in my bois it used the windblows<BR>> drive and installed grub wiping out the other bootloader. Now you might<BR>> think that this is a good thing but my wife uses windows and I sure didn't<BR>> want to mess things up. I love my wife but more important I like a <BR>> peaceful<BR>> coexistance with her.<BR>><BR>> I repaired the windblows mbr and then changed the boot in bios. I <BR>> repaired<BR>> Ubuntu again but it didn't work. It still will not boot into Ubuntu.<BR>><BR>> It appears that I have a working OS but the bootloader is somehow messed <BR>> up.<BR>> Is there an easy fix?<BR>><BR>> Jimbo<BR>> Eve's Automotive<BR>> <A
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