wiped disk - no longer bootable

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2019-07-09 at 19:52 +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> And now the system boots again! (It's a fresh KISS Ubuntu 19.04.)

Ubuntu GNOME is everything, but KISS ;).

> The installation of Ubuntu was terribly slow. It hung at the message [snip]
> The counter counted up very slowly. [snip]

Most likely a broken drive, second likely a broken controller of the
mobo or another part of the mobo is the culprit.

I wouldn't be surprised, if some GNOME shell install or even some other
Ubuntu flavor wouldn't run on old hardware, but if the installation
already is slow, then most likely fishy hardware is the cause, it's even
not much likely that the PEBCAK.

Shouting! Bootcamp mode! Did you replace the fine battery and
restore/upgarde the BIOS? Assuming you are using several RAM bars, did
remove all, excepted of one RAM bar and after that did replace the RAM
bar by one after another RAM bar? That's way more meaningful then
running Memtest.

"Sustainable future" + "budget" vs "the effort of
maintenance/troubleshooting + "human mortality".