[04:00] <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?
[04:16] <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.
[04:17] <Jane90> The installation seemed to go ok
[04:18] <Jane90> I'll try switching the RAM out again and see if that changes anything though thanks
[04:19] <Maik> it's worth a try, just to make sure :)
[05:13] <Jane90> It's still stuck on the flash screen
[05:14] <Maik> so it doesn't boot with the old RAM modules either then?
[05:15] <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?
[05:16] <Jane90> erm, how do i check that?
[05:17] <Maik> not sure myself on how to check that
[05:18] <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?
[05:19] <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
[05:20] <Maik> swap partition isn't needed, a swap file will be created automatically iirc
[05:21] <Jane90> I was under the impression a swap partition was preferable
[05:22] <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
[05:23] <Jane90> oh, well I guess I can try reinstalling
[05:23] <Maik> sure :)
[05:25] <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.
[05:39] <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
[06:27] <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?
[19:51] <pppp> hi
[19:51] <pkd16> hi