On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 09:28:36AM -0700, Stan Gorodenski stanlep@commspeed.net [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> Scott,
> This machine is really strange. I went into the bios and could not find
> an EFR, MBR, or Legacy setting. I remember something like this having to
> be changed with my Lenovo laptop about 4 years ago that has a Win 8
> motherboard on it. It had to be partitioned to run Win 7 Professional 64
> bit. If I recall correctly, a change like this had to be made in the
> Bios. The machine that has Ubuntu installed on it is a tower case
> desktop that was put together by Motherboards and UPgrades in 2004 and
> so it has an old Bios. I could not find any of the setting you mentioned
> (the EFR, MBR, and Legacy). Maybe MotherBoards and Upgrades more
> carefully tailored a Bios for the machine that did not have this setting.
That's EFI or uefi, but whatever. :)
>
> However, here is the weird part. I got out of the Bios without saving
> anything and let it proceed to boot up. This time Ubuntu loaded with a
> lot of lines of information streaming across the screen. It eventually
> asked for a login and so I entered the username for the
> non-administrative account I had created during the installation and the
> password for that account. I think it took it, but am not sure.
To check, you can try typing commands, like ls (which will list in the
directory) or maybe ls -a which should show things like .bashrc and the
like.
I will
> be gone for a couple days and will not be able to do anything more on it
> till then. Why Ubuntu booted up today but would not yesterday is a
> mystery to me. Yesterday I had turned the machine off a number of times
> to re-boot, but did not turn off the line conditioner. I always turn off
> the line conditioner every night and when I do this there is no power at
> all that can get to a pc. Did completely turning off the power cause the
> machine to clear itself of everything that made it possible for Ubuntu
> to boot up?
This does not seem possible on an old machine like this.
> When it did boot up it stalled at a boot screen where I had to hit F1 to
> continue and so there is still some kind of problem. I will investigate
> this when I get back in about 3 days.
Good luck. It may be some sort of hardware issue, but I wouldn't know
where. :) Maybe the frequent reboots jarred something.
--
Scott Robbins
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