TWO RESTARTS TO MOUNT REMOVABLE DRIVES

[Maurice Murphy]

Hi Peter,

My adventures were not too successful, I'm afraid.  I tried copying a 
modified xorg.conf file from my live CD.  I found I could not copy it to 
a removable drive, even as sudo.  So that experiment was a no go.

I tried modifying my existing xorg.conf by amending the HorizSynch and 
VertRefresh numbers to those suggested in bug#3731, (My current values 
are: HorizSynch 28-204, VertRefresh 43-60.  This gives me 8 different 
screen resolution options!) 

When I restarted after this modification, my screen bombed with its 
usual blue floating no screen driver message.  So I did an emergency 
restart and copied my original xorg.conf back again.  Fortunately, 
everything then worked OK.

So I think I'm going to stay a chicken, there would be just too much 
backup and post install modification work to making a single boot Ubuntu 
and even then, I would have no guarantee that the screen resolution 
problem would be resolved.  Besides, my dual boot works just fine in 
every respect and I really don't need to go and look at Windows XP 
except in dire emergency or when Windows needs its frequent security 
updates!

I still have the "two restarts to mount removable drives quirk."  Any 
ideas anyone?

Thanks,

Maurice

Peter Whittaker wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 11:17 -0500, Maurice Murphy wrote:
>   
>> On another topic, I have found a Work Around for my screen resolution 
>> problem encountered when booting from the 6.10 Live CD.  It was listed 
>> under Bug #59349.
>> ...snip...
>> This worked for me the next time I restarted from my live CD and it did 
>> not overwrite my regular xorg.conf  :-)
>>     
>
> "Maurice, would you be willing to try an experiment (backup all valuable
> data first...!)?", he asked gingerly....
>
> Boot from the LiveCD, apply the workaround, and re-install Ubuntu.
>
> When you reboot, is the resolution correct?
>
> Another test to try is this:
>
> Boot from the LiveCD, use the function keys (F4?) to set the resolution,
> then re-install? When you reboot, is the resolution correct?
>
> These would both be good data points. If you perform the tests and the
> resolutions are correct, please add the data to bug #3731 (59349 has
> been marked dupe of 3731, so 3731 appears to be the one being tracked).
>
> Thanks!
>
> pww
>
>   

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