My friend has an Acer laptop that won’t boot. Some reason ALT F10 isn’t working. If I boot to a live linux disk, can I get the reovery manager to run to make the CD’s? By the way, he can’t boot becuase of an NTLDR is missing. I have speant a lot of time trying to fix this. So I need the disks or a possible fix.
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Tagged Acer, acer laptop, alt, boot, Disk, friend, Laptop, Linux, Linux Disk, ntldr, reason, recovery, recovery disks, reovery
I am currently using a vaio vgn-fz140e which came with vista. I have a 60 gig external hard drive from my previous computer and I wiped the hard drive and installed Ubuntu linux on it. For some reason, the computer automatically tries to boot ubuntu but can’t load it from the external drive. It doesn’t even try to load vista. When running ubuntu from the live cd, I can see that both vista and ubuntu are installed on their respective drives, but they won’t boot at all. I tried to get into the BIOS, but for some reason, I can’t. Can anyone help me?
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Tagged BIOS, boot, computer, drive, dual booting vista, external hard drive, gig, Linux, reason, Ubuntu, Vaio, vaio vgn, vgn fz140e, vista
Ok i tried to run ubuntu linux and for some reason my system dont want to run it all I get is a bunch of tuff ont he bottom of a black screen. I tried to run pclinuz os live cd and when I hit the start using live cd it acted liek it would oad and then just came back to the screen. I also tried xubuntu and kubutu and the smae thing happeed like it did with ubuntu, So my question is which distro for linux should I try next Can anyone help me fine a linux that will run on this kinda computer. Here is the web site with my comptuers specs http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00216258
The reason I am asking this is because I can’t make up my mind.
I hate windows and if I had my way, I would never go back. However, I am new to Linux, so I am not sure if I want to do away with Windows altogether.
I created my own Live CD, and have experimented with Ubuntu for several days. I like it a lot, and now I have to decide whether or not I should get rid of windows.
By the way, the reason I don’t want to dual-boot is because I have had a ton of problems with grub.
For some reason when I try to use the fedora live cd it doesn’t get too far into it before it won’t show on my screen. I had this problem when I installed ubuntu but there was a text installation option. Is there one for fedora?
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Tagged Fedora, fedora linux, installation, installation option, Linux, option, problem, reason, screen, text, Ubuntu
