| Kilos | morning superfly and others | 08:28 |
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| superfly | morning Kilos | 08:29 |
| Kilos | Maaz, coffee on | 08:39 |
| * Maaz washes some mugs | 08:39 | |
| Kilos | lo nlsthzn coffee time | 08:40 |
| nlsthzn | Kilos: Hey... that's ok... making myself tea here at work now... brought all the ingridients needed :p | 08:40 |
| === nlsthzn is now known as nlsthzn-work | ||
| Kilos | lol | 08:41 |
| Kilos | man its for the cyberbrain not the soft one | 08:41 |
| Maaz | Coffee's ready for Kilos! | 08:43 |
| Kilos | Maaz, ty buddy | 08:43 |
| Maaz | Dont get familiar now Kilos | 08:43 |
| nlsthzn-work | Kilos: Both my minds need tea... then again both are soft :p | 08:46 |
| Kilos | hehe | 08:46 |
| Kilos | yay that free sms site is working kiff again | 09:16 |
| Kilos | they mustas been upgrading as well | 09:16 |
| Kilos | nlsthzn-work, ^^ | 09:28 |
| Kilos | nice and fast as well | 09:28 |
| nlsthzn-work | Kilos: Good to hear :) | 09:34 |
| * Kilos gots a problem. will try explain | 17:02 | |
| Kilos | lay down for a while this avy and when coming back to pc freecell opened blank | 17:03 |
| Kilos | not much wanted to work . even shutdown didnt work | 17:03 |
| Kilos | on rebooting i get initramfs prompt | 17:04 |
| Kilos | even doing a recovery gives the same initramfs prompt | 17:04 |
| Kilos | im on karmic now | 17:04 |
| Kilos | i typed help at the prompt but nothing there can help me | 17:05 |
| Kilos | Maaz, google ubuntu maverick boots to initramfs prompt only | 17:06 |
| Maaz | Kilos: "[ubuntu] 8.04 Boot Problems: initramfs prompt/ BusyBox - Ubuntu Forums" http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=807345 :: "VirtFeatureVerification - Ubuntu Wiki" https://wiki.edubuntu.org/VirtFeatureVerification :: "Bug #686832 in multipath-tools (Ubuntu): “multipath-tools-boot ..." https://code.launchpad.net/bugs/686832 :: "ubuntu-bugs: [Bug 778520] Re: install on degraded raid1 does not ..." http://osdir.com/ml/ubuntu-bugs/2011 | 17:06 |
| somaunn | hello everyone | 17:15 |
| somaunn | hello | 17:16 |
| Kilos | hi somaunn | 17:17 |
| somaunn | i need help | 17:18 |
| somaunn | i have this message on ubuntu startup, error: sparse file not allowed | 17:18 |
| Kilos | explain what your problem is then be patient. someone will help when they get a chance | 17:19 |
| somaunn | what does it mean? how can i resolve it | 17:19 |
| Kilos | you on natty? | 17:19 |
| somaunn | yes | 17:20 |
| Kilos | lets see what maaz has to say while we wait for a clever guy | 17:20 |
| somaunn | i've reinstalled my natty with btrfs and after that i received that msg on startup | 17:21 |
| Kilos | Maaz, google ubuntu natty starts with error: sparse file not allowed | 17:21 |
| Maaz | Kilos: "Bug #736743 in grub2 (Ubuntu): “environment block not implemented ..." https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/736743 :: "Bug #464743 in grub2 (Ubuntu): “error: sparse file not allowed”" https://launchpad.net/bugs/464743 :: "On Ubuntu: btrfs is now available on Natty" http://onubuntu.blogspot.com/2011/01/btrfs-is-now-available-on-natty.html :: "Full BTRFS support in grub [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums" http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index | 17:21 |
| Kilos | check if there is help at one of those links somaunn | 17:22 |
| somaunn | okay will check it | 17:23 |
| somaunn | thanks for help | 17:23 |
| Kilos | you welcome. hope you get it fixed | 17:25 |
| somaunn | another question, | 17:30 |
| somaunn | how to recover the network icon next to sound | 17:31 |
| Kilos | try right click on the panel | 17:35 |
| Kilos | then add i think | 17:35 |
| Kilos | ya add to panel | 17:36 |
| Kilos | then look for it in your options | 17:36 |
| Kilos | somaunn, ^^ | 17:37 |
| Kilos | hiya kbmonkey | 17:40 |
| Kilos | how clever are you | 17:41 |
| somaunn | bye bye | 17:41 |
| kbmonkey | hiya Kilos | 17:42 |
| kbmonkey | Im making some veg soup so I guess Im clever enough. whats up? | 17:42 |
| Kilos | kbmonkey, my maverick boots to initramfs prompt only | 17:42 |
| Kilos | dunno where to go from there | 17:43 |
| Kilos | normal commands dont work there | 17:43 |
| Kilos | and the help is beyond me | 17:43 |
| kbmonkey | like a grub prompt? | 17:43 |
| Kilos | yeah but initramfs $ | 17:43 |
| Kilos | i booted from live cd and tried installing grub-pc again but no luck | 17:44 |
| * kbmonkey warms up the search engine | 17:44 | |
| Kilos | lol | 17:44 |
| kbmonkey | if you can get a line of error message we can search it might help | 17:45 |
| Kilos | i looked at lotsa google links on it but they all for IT guys\ | 17:45 |
| kbmonkey | does it look similar to this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1561735 | 17:46 |
| Kilos | when i am there i cant get online or anything. am using karmic thats first install on this drive | 17:46 |
| kbmonkey | so you have karmic and maverick on one drive, separate partitions? | 17:47 |
| Kilos | kartmic then maverick alongside | 17:47 |
| Kilos | that looks similar | 17:47 |
| kbmonkey | okay, karmic uses grub 1.9, maverick grub 2 | 17:48 |
| kbmonkey | during maverick install, do you remember where you installed the boot loader? | 17:48 |
| Kilos | whew | 17:50 |
| Kilos | in sda i think | 17:50 |
| Kilos | i dunno what happened it was working fine and after a break even my shutdowjnh option didnt work | 17:51 |
| kbmonkey | oh dear | 17:51 |
| Kilos | yeah. like a bad guy got in while i was away | 17:52 |
| Kilos | but i got firewall running | 17:52 |
| kbmonkey | did you use the boot repair graphical tool to reinstall grub? | 17:52 |
| Kilos | lol | 17:52 |
| Kilos | the recovery one | 17:53 |
| Kilos | ? | 17:53 |
| kbmonkey | yes the one found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling GRUB2 | 17:53 |
| kbmonkey | (that link is broken up ) | 17:53 |
| Kilos | i tried recovery onb booting and it also ends at that initramfs prompt | 17:53 |
| kbmonkey | no there is a recovery Live CD to reinstall grub | 17:54 |
| Kilos | ok i go see what they say | 17:54 |
| kbmonkey | not the recovery boot menu option, that is differnt | 17:54 |
| Kilos | oh from the live cde? | 17:54 |
| Kilos | cd? | 17:54 |
| kbmonkey | yes it is a new live cd to repair the system https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair | 17:54 |
| kbmonkey | it must be new, I never noticed that before :) | 17:55 |
| Kilos | ok i go look for that. not sure if i seen it before. do you go the install route? | 17:55 |
| kbmonkey | okay that second link is a modified Ubuntu live CD, so you may not want to DL an entire ISO for that | 17:57 |
| Kilos | oh wait\ | 17:57 |
| Kilos | a new live cd repair cd | 17:57 |
| Kilos | not the maverick live cd | 17:57 |
| kbmonkey | your live CD can get online right? | 17:57 |
| Kilos | yes if i go try ubuntu\ | 17:58 |
| kbmonkey | okay thats good. I think what we can do is boot a Ubuntu Maverick live CD | 17:58 |
| Kilos | ok i write this down and go try it. ty | 17:58 |
| kbmonkey | hang 5 | 17:59 |
| Kilos | ok | 17:59 |
| kbmonkey | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair tells you how as well | 18:00 |
| kbmonkey | when in the live environment, follow the 2nd option to install boot-repair | 18:00 |
| kbmonkey | then follow the rest of the instructions in that same link :) | 18:01 |
| Kilos | thanks kbmonkey | 18:01 |
| kbmonkey | I hope that helps! | 18:02 |
| Kilos | lol so do i | 18:02 |
| kbmonkey | okay gtg for 30 mins I'll be back soon :) | 18:02 |
| Kilos | later all | 18:02 |
| superfly | kbmonkey: grub 1.9 == grub 2 | 18:21 |
| Symmetria | lol, so like, we always use airport codes in our router names | 18:28 |
| * Symmetria is thinking that when he puts routers down in grahamstown | 18:28 | |
| Symmetria | it may not be politically wise to use their airport code | 18:28 |
| Symmetria | "FAGT" | 18:28 |
| Kilos | kbmonkey: that is a cd download site | 18:46 |
| Kilos | i cant do that | 18:46 |
| Kilos | i go back to karmic if i dont get it working | 18:50 |
| Kilos | see yas later | 18:50 |
| kbmonkey | hi Kilos | 19:09 |
| kbmonkey | you do not need to download a CD ISO, you can use your existing ubuntu live CD via the 2nd option | 19:10 |
| Kilos | eish sorry | 19:10 |
| Kilos | missed that | 19:10 |
| Kilos | ok i go try again | 19:11 |
| Kilos | i wonder what happened. everything been working great for months | 19:11 |
| Kilos | later | 19:13 |
| kbmonkey | perhaps a grub update incompatibility | 19:13 |
| kbmonkey | not too sure, see if that works :) | 19:13 |
| Kilos | ok ty will do | 19:17 |
| Kilos | hehe kbmonkey | 19:48 |
| Kilos | now i dont get any options on boot anymore | 19:49 |
| Kilos | goes straight to karmic | 19:49 |
| Kilos | and modem battling | 19:49 |
| Kilos | hehe | 19:49 |
| Kilos | needed to reboot a few times and also move the modem to different usb port | 19:52 |
| Kilos | and when trying to mount the partition with maverick on i getting | 19:54 |
| Kilos | Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda6, | 19:54 |
| Kilos | missing codepage or helper program, or other error | 19:54 |
| Kilos | In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try | 19:54 |
| Kilos | dmesg | tail or so | 19:54 |
| kbmonkey | oh wow I hope your partition for maverick isn't corrupt. maybe thats why the boot stopped working :( | 19:55 |
| kbmonkey | when you run sudo update-grub, it should detect all Linuxes on your disk. The fact that it did not detect Maverick tells me that partition cannot be read | 19:56 |
| Kilos | it only seems to see the karmic images | 20:27 |
| Kilos | will check how much data i got left and install maverick again | 20:28 |
| Kilos | tomorrow maybe | 20:28 |
| Kilos | head thumping now | 20:28 |
| Kilos | i go lie down some. maybe come back later. if not sleep tight all | 20:29 |
| kbmonkey | awe alrightee then, sleep tight | 20:34 |
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