[Klug-general]I've just had a slight problem with linux

Tim McDonnell kharnmcd at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 15 09:56:35 GMT 2007


Hey there Darren is it still broke? I had Ubuntu running on a seperate hard
disk from windows and one day all i had was the GRUB message and it wouldnt
allow me to load windows or linux it turned out that the IDE cable had some
how came loose from the Second HD (pesky little MS nanobots), just thought
id put that out there as a possibility.

On 3/13/07, Darren Chenery <enigma_blackbird at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Since I'm a total newbie to linux and after installing fedora I got an
> alert to say that there were updates available, so I clicked on whatever it
> was (I forget now) to proceed with the update procedure.
>
> After it had all gone through, it said that a reboot was needed, but on
> rebooting, my system seemed to have frozen and the last bit of text on the
> screen was "GRUB", the hard disc access light was on, not flickering, but on
> constantly.
>
> I have 3 physical hard drives the first two have windows partitions and
> the third is only for linux.  I have had to reinstall windows, since trying
> to reinstall fedora, had no effect on remedying the system freeze.
>
> Do any of you know how, in the future (when I reinstall linux again) to
> correct the problem should it occur again?
>
> Darren
>
> enigma_blackbird at hotmail.com
>
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