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| Jane90 | Hey, I need some help with a new install. I upgraded RAM and hard drive and installed Xubuntu, all seemed to go well. But now computer wont boot. Any suggestions? | 04:00 |
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| Maik | hard to tell what the issue is. Could be the wrong RAM modules. I have a Lenovo and tried to upgrade the RAM to 8GB (2X 4GB) and it wouldn't boot anymore due wrong RAM modules as it turned out later. | 04:16 |
| Jane90 | The installation seemed to go ok | 04:17 |
| Jane90 | I'll try switching the RAM out again and see if that changes anything though thanks | 04:18 |
| Maik | it's worth a try, just to make sure :) | 04:19 |
| Jane90 | It's still stuck on the flash screen | 05:13 |
| Maik | so it doesn't boot with the old RAM modules either then? | 05:14 |
| Jane90 | nope, I can boot from USB. Could it be a bad install? Is there anyway to test that? | 05:15 |
| Maik | are you sure you did install it onto your hard drive and not the usb stick? | 05:15 |
| Jane90 | erm, how do i check that? | 05:16 |
| Maik | not sure myself on how to check that | 05:17 |
| Jane90 | It's a brand new hard drive, I guess there wouldbe stuff on it maybe? I'm just in process of booting from USB now | 05:18 |
| Maik | what did you choose during the install, manual partitioning or guided using the entire disk? | 05:18 |
| Jane90 | I chose "something else" and then set a swap partition, a partition mounted to root, and a partition mounted to home. My intention was to mount to the root partition | 05:19 |
| Maik | swap partition isn't needed, a swap file will be created automatically iirc | 05:20 |
| Jane90 | I was under the impression a swap partition was preferable | 05:21 |
| Jane90 | there is indeed stuff in the root mounted partition that looks like I would expect | 05:22 |
| Maik | buntu uses a swap file since the 18.04 release | 05:22 |
| Jane90 | oh, well I guess I can try reinstalling | 05:23 |
| Maik | sure :) | 05:23 |
| Maik | it's been a while i manually partitioned a HDD/SDD and always use the entire disk option. So i can't really help with that. | 05:25 |
| Jane90 | I wish to access files across the network from another machine, I've heard it's easier if files are on a seperate partition. Also heard it's easier to recover data from a seperate partition in the hard drive fails | 05:39 |
| Jane90 | that seemed to work even less well. I now get the error "Non-system disk or disk error replace and strike any key when ready" any ideas how to remedy this? | 06:27 |
| === mokolea is now known as montecito | ||
| === montecito is now known as mokolea | ||
| pppp | hi | 19:51 |
| pkd16 | hi | 19:51 |
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