[Blackpool] Mint & KODI

[Tony Hughes]

Hi Geoff

I'm getting there slowly but not able to drive.

At start up try starting in recovery mode to see if this cures the issue.
If the grub menue is not showing at start up press f12 on start up then
select HDD and this should show the grub screen, select advanced options
then recovery mode and see what happens.

The other option is use the live disc to access HDD and rescue any stored
data then do a reinstall of Mint to give a clean start. Downside is you'll
need to reinstall any software not installed by default.

If doing that don't forget to backup the .mozilla folder in home (control h
to show hidden folders) then use this file to restore your firefox settings
in reinstalled system. All you do is copy saved folder back to home
directory of clean system and overwrite the current .mozilla folder, the
next time you fire up firefox all will be as it was on old system.

Hope this is of help, say hi to Tony for me

Tony H

On 21 Feb 2017 16:28, "geoffanderton--- via Blackpool" <
blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi All
>      Hope Tony is recovering, in his absence could anyone help please.
> Tony supplied a tower system to a pal with Mate installed, my mate
> added KODI but now on boot up the tower switches off as it starts to
> display the Mint desktop. Tower will run for hours using Ubuntu from a
> DVD so assume KODI is the culprit & not overheating etc.
>      Anyway can anybody suggest a way of uninstalling/disabling KODI,
> Am hoping he can use the shift key to get into recovery mode before
> Mint/Kodi is activated as a start to the process!!.
>                            Cheers
>                               Geoff
>
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