Locked up in boot process.

[Steven Vollom]

On Saturday 01 August 2009 03:40:53 pm Goh Lip wrote:
> Goh Lip wrote:
> > That is what I think you had done in the past.
> > But since you cannot boot up now, follow Frans' message.
>
> Steven, I wanted to but forgot to add that following Jonas message is
> also quite straightforward, but I am not really sure if you have the
> pci=nomsi
> in the grub kernel as you may have reinstalled, if we recall correctly.
> Regards,
> Goh Lip

I am so proficient in installing Jaunty that I can install including the 
updates at the end of installation in 14 minutes.  That includes configuring 
kmail, which has become even a faster task in the last 2 updates.  I can also 
install kubuntu restricted extras as fast as any human alive.  I almost don't 
pause through the Sun agreement.

And to be sure you can believe that I am proficient, I never have to reconfigure 
anything in the first installation.  In fact the first thing I do after the 
installation is check for mail, and it always receives mail, which I respond 
to without error.

I believe it is time for people to start believing me a bit more.  I remember 
how it was always my bumbling that caused the problems in the past, now, when 
it happens, I am left clueless.  Things that have worked flawlessly in the past 
end up with problems.

I am no longer careless in the installation procedure.  Most of the mistakes I 
used to make I have learned and do not make anymore.  There are a few.  I 
don't install repositories and keys very successfully.  Too much time 
transpires between having the task to redo, but If I keep having to reinstall 
to solve my problems, that too will become easy for me.

My problem in that process is that I do not really understand what I am doing, 
so when there is a failure in any step, I can not yet think through the 
problem.  A helper will give me a link to do something and it will not perform 
as advertised.  That stops me until someone enters the conversation again.  
The time lapse between getting the problems worked out, leaves me with what I 
need at the end of the process and not enough repetition that works for me to 
generate a permanent memory.  As a result, I use the system once installed 
properly, but have no idea how to repeat the task the nest time.  I am 
referring to adding PPA's and Keys, here.

Next I would like to learn how to build a command to have something done that 
I want to do.  And how to understand a man page.  I understand that sometimes 
an instruction will work, but a slightly better instruction will get a better 
result.  I would like to start learning that, and what grep and words like 
that mean and do.  But if no one will believe me when I say that I cannot 
enter the Boot when booting up, or that I can not edit a file that is in a 
folder that doesn't exist where it belongs, I can not follow the instructions 
that require those things.  I wish you could open /boot on my machine; the 
first thing you would say is where is /Grub, then where is menu.lst.  So if I 
can't enter the grub at boot, I have to edit the file using an editor.  And if 
the file doesn't exist, I can not edit it.

Steven