SOLVED: Hardy->Karmic booting locked-room mystery

[David Gerard]

2010/1/14 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:

> Here's a locked-room mystery for you.
> Dell Latitude C610 laptop. Has no CD drive and doesn't boot from USB.
> Windows on the first partition, I put Debian Etch on from floppies for
> the second partition.


Solution: the loved one has been wanting to watch DVDs in bed anyway,
so we just spent the money and got a DVD drive for it, which it should
be entirely able to boot from. Then I can fix GRUB. Problem solved :-D


- d.