[olug] grub

[Kelly Williams]

True but i use ubuntu disk on machines that are old enough that you can load
with a flashdrive.
kelly


On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Sean Sinclair <seanfsinclair at gmail.com>wrote:

> It is much easier to use a 2 gb usb drive as the "installation disk".
> flash aren't as easily damaged as a cd. It was even fun to install a
> version of 10.04 on a 7 gb flash drive as a recovery tool for any
> computer.
>
> Sean
>
> On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 21:12 -0500, Kelly Williams wrote:
>
> > I figured it out i burned a new copy of 10.04.1 and it installed prefect
> > with out a problem. My CD must have had a bad spot in the disk.
> >
> > kelly
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> >
> > > What are the results if you put in a different hdd?  Can the live cd
> > > see it?  Could be the hdd itself died too...
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > On 2010-10-20, Kelly Williams <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > My motherboard went out on my desktop and i had another one just like
> it
> > > in
> > > > a box. The system is a ubuntu 10.04 system. when i boot it come up
> with a
> > > > error:out of disk grub rescure> i have tried to boot to a live cd, to
> > > repair
> > > > grub and nothing it still doesn't boot. I also backup the data and
> dban
> > > the
> > > > hard drive still does it.
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