[HLUG] Broken Boots

[dicegeorge at hotmail dot com]

Chris,
have you got important data on the laptop?
if so i would back it up now.

[g]

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From: "Chris Owens" <cowens at clara.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 2:17 PM
To: <info at lifespacedesign.co.uk>; "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." 
<herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Broken Boots

>  Hi Pete
>
>     Thanks for such a quick reply. I think you are at least partly on the 
> right lines. Great man.
>
>     Powered down and took out the battery for couple of minutes. Result 
> the machine now recognises and boots from the live Ubuntu 10.04 CD but 
> still no luck with the Windows CD, when it just asks 'Press any key to 
> load CD' and then goes straight through to the Grub Menu. Trying to start 
> Windows from there ends up with the Blue Screen we all know so well. So 
> still a bit stuck but thanks all the same.
>
>     BTW it is a lap-top so am a bit reluctant to change the Hard Drive 
> even if I had one spare.
>
> Chris
>
> On 21/09/11 12:54, Pete Linnell wrote:
>> Chris,
>> Looks at first blush that the machine is in hibernate or standby. Have 
>> you tried/done any of the following;
>>
>> Insert a different HDD
>> Power down/remove battery
>>
>> I am not suggesting you should do either of these, but if you have it 
>> would tell us a little more, including locating the issue between BIOS 
>> and boot sector.
>>
>> Maybe you could bring it along next week ? there is bound to be someone 
>> that knows what they're doing about ;)
>>
>> Pete
>>
>> On 21/09/11 12:37, Chris Owens wrote:
>>>  Hi Folks
>>>
>>>     Sorry to trouble you with a tricky one.
>>>
>>> Have been running Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.04 on an IBM T40 no probs for 
>>> over a year - in fact almost forgot about Windows. Then fiddled with 
>>> Power Management to try and optimise Energy use in downtimes with little 
>>> success. Re-boots and/or Wake ups completely shambolic, anything from 
>>> completely successful restart with open programmes etc to several kernel 
>>> panics. Gave up but then noticed Windows no longer accessible and I 
>>> cannot re-load it.
>>>
>>>     Present situation
>>>         1. On Power Up T40 boots straight to Grub Menu in say 20 secs no 
>>> sign of usual Hard Drive/Memory start up messages.
>>>         2. Pressing Access IBM to enter BIOS no longer works but BIOS 
>>> can still be entered using F2. (BIOS Version 2.12 (1RET85WW) Device Boot 
>>> Order: Floppy>
>>>             CD-ROM> HD  confirmed
>>>         3. Selecting Ubuntu 10.04 from Grub Menu boots normally to a 
>>> fully functional system.
>>>                     os-prober confirms /dev/sda1:MS Windows XP 
>>> Prof:Windows:chain
>>>                     GParted partitions look OK
>>>                     Windows partition accessible quite normally from 
>>> Ubuntu
>>> BUT  4. Selecting Windows XP from Grub Menu boots to a Windows B&W 
>>> Screen requesting type of Windows Start up Safe Mode, Normal Boot etc 
>>> all of which
>>>             lead to Blue Screen of death with insufficient time to note 
>>> down 'problem' hex-dec addresses but the first is STOP: 0x0000007B.
>>>
>>>         5. Interrupting Windows XP boot from Grub Menu (pressing Access 
>>> IBM button) returns: Authentication of System Services failed. <ESC> to 
>>> Resume. Press
>>> <ESC> and you get back to Grub Menu
>>>
>>>         6. Starting up with either Windows XP or Ubuntu Live CD has no 
>>> effect. T40 ignores content of the CD-ROM Drive and goes straight to 
>>> Grub Menu.
>>>
>>> I am sorry this is a bit of a rambling post but I haven't a clue what 
>>> the problem is or how to fix it but would very much appreciate any help
>>>
>>> Thanks everybody
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
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>>
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