Testing memory and wiping hard drive before installing Ubuntu

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi All,

Thanks for your suggestions.

I found these GRUB commands from ubuntuforums.org:-

 # Boot whatever is in the CD drive
menuentry "CD on (cd0)" {
 insmod udf
set root=(cd0)
chainloader +1
 }

I booted from hard drive, pressed the SHIFT keys down, got to GRUB. Pressed
'c' (I think) to get to the GRUB command line.
Put a dban CD-R in optical drive.
Typed in
 insmod udf
set root=(cd0)
chainloader +1

And got the error message "invalid EFI filepath"

I am now out of my depth. I will use less subtle means to wipe the drive.
Might use the "scrub" command.

BW,


Ian

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