Re: aklug Digest V4 #45

Stephen

You need to get the appropriate part of the /var/log/messages or
/var/log/dmesg (or the output of the dmesg command). This will provide
some clue
as to what is broken. It has been my experience that the Windows slash
and burn
reinstall usually does not do very well.

Jim

>aklug Digest Fri, 04 Mar 2005 Volume: 04 Issue: 045
>
>In This Issue:
> RE: Linux is boring
> re: happy happy fun fun
> [Fwd: RE: Linux is boring]
> Re: Linux is boring
> Re: happy happy fun fun
> Re: happy happy fun fun
> Wiring Guy (JOB!)
> wireless install job offer
> cron ftp and print
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Subject: RE: Linux is boring
>Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:22:06 -0900
>From: "Stephen King" <sking@chartercollege.edu>
>
>You are either a whole lot luckier (or unluckier, depending on your
>take) or smarter than I. =20
>
>To quote an e-mail from a Linux (Xandros)-based client this morning:
>"My computer won't boot AGAIN!! It froze up while I was trying to print
>something off the internet and I tried to reboot it, but it would only
>come up to that blue screen after signing in with my password. I tried
>two more times, then I put in the Xandros disk. I did the "shift" key
>thing and then told it to "restore". It asked me questions, like which
>number do I want to restore (and only gave me a list of 1), so I picked
>"1". Then it asked me if I was sure I wanted to restore and I said
>"yes". Then it asked me if I wanted to change the command line, and I
>said "no" (of course). It said that my system has been restored, told
>me to remove the CD and hit the "enter" key to reboot. I did. Still
>nothing."
>
>They were trying to print the table of Iditarod mushers off the Iditarod
>site...shame on them for printing an HTML table. I tried the Restore
>option myself, and nothing. It accepts the login (both that user and
>root) and then goes to a big happy blue screen and sits there for as
>long as you have the patience to watch for. The Restore option had
>worked the last time I got called to work on that machine, a couple
>weeks ago. Then I tried the Rescue option, which dumped me into single
>user mode. Poked around in the file system to see what I could see.
>Nothing jumped out at me, so I tried Ye Olde Windows Trick of
>reinstalling over the top. That seems to have worked, 'cept now I have
>to reinstall Word Perfect and find the right printer driver again.
>Arrrrrrgh!
>
>So...question to the group: Any thoughts as to what I should'a
>checked/done to try to recover from the error? =20
>
>Thanks,
>
>Stephen King
>Instructor, Information Technology
>Charter College
>2221 E. Northern Lights Suite 120
>Anchorage, AK 99508
>(907) 777-1370
>
>

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Received on Sun Mar 6 14:34:15 2005