[sf-lug] notebook wont boot

Christian Einfeldt einfeldt at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 19:55:57 PST 2013


Hi,

I like SCALE.  It is not big and corporate like LinuxWorld was.  There are
a lot of small sessions in which you can really talk with people.  And the
conference is held right here in the Hilton Hotel, so you don't have to go
far to go from session to your room.  I recommend it.

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> good to know. thanks, and glad you're back up.
>
> let us know how SCALE is. i went once years ago and really liked it. Great
> conference.
>
>
> On 02/23/2013 03:37 PM, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> thanks Michael.
>>
>> It turned out to be a bad CMOS battery.  My machine thought that it was
>> 1988, and so couldn't read files dated after that dates, such as the OS.
>>   Heh.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Michael Shiloh <
>> michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  another idea: can you boot from a bootable thumbdrive? someone at SCALE
>>> probably has one. once booted, perhaps then you can mount your disk and
>>> see
>>> if it's damaged.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/23/2013 12:19 PM, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
>>>
>>>  LAX > LAX Hilton for #scale11x. My notebook wont boot th newly installed
>>>> Lubuntu 12.04. Grub not even booting. I do get a bios. IBM Thinkpad
>>>> R50e.
>>>>    I installed Lubuntu 12.04 just fine a few days ago.  Battery / power
>>>> not
>>>> an issue.  Any ideas?  Thx.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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Christian Einfeldt
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