test please delete

[DS23]

yeah see - it's easy peasy.

[BrilloPad]

evening all

[BrilloPad]

I am just going into the time machine and going back 4 hours...

[NickFitz]

Boot from Ubuntu boot CD. Select "Boot from first hard disk"

Error 17.

Boot from a live CD/DVD and you at least have a working OS from which to fix the existing system.

[BrilloPad]

As opposed to WordStar.

BTW, it is called, strangely, OpenOffice.org

surely you dont expect me to know aboiut techie things do you!

I m a contractor...

[BrilloPad]

This is your cell, BrilloPad, and this is your cellmate Bubba...

Do you want the top bunk or the bottom bunk?

why did you just drop the soap on the floor?

[BrilloPad]

Byee

There'll be some stats later...

I look forward to seeing them - I hope they are before real-time...

[BrilloPad]

Imagine how big TPD would be without the limit!!!

At Guardian Talk I could post counts every 2 seconds for hours...

[BrilloPad]

Today, 16:41 #64600
BrowneIssue
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Posts: 5,069

century

[BrowneIssue]

Ubuntu

Sample fix:

"The controller writes to the boot drive in the area of the disk (first cylinder?) and grub also wants to write to the first 16 sectors. From what I read in a post on the grub mailing list it seems like the location might vary, possibly depending on the controller bios version being used. I don't remember the exact details of the location of the bytes on my system, I can post that in a follow up email if needed. Basically to work around the problem you need to take the grub modified stage1_5 (before its corrupted) and write it past where the bios writes to the disk. Then run the grub install command telling it where the stage1_5 is located on disk. You can alternately install stage1 to a floppy which seems to solve the problem as well."

Well, thank heavens it's something easy to do.

This problem has been known about since mid 2005.