Laptop refuses to boot

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2020-09-07 at 10:56 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> but it seems to have worked.  I was able to boot from a new Xubuntu
> 18.04.2 DVD I burned.

Yay!

>  Oonce it was up and running, I cancelled the
> install and powered-off the machine

Balls of steel!

> This morning It booted normally from the hard drive, so all appears
> to be well.

Whew.

> Fortunately I don't think I'll need to go that route, but I will
> definitely back up the files.  It's been a while since the last one.

Make sure it is regular, preferably automated (e.g. to the cloud),
preferably with regular copies taken off-site,  and check that you can
retrieve files from the backup.

Nice to hear a good news story :-) Thanks!

Regards, K.

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