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- Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:06 pm
- Forum: Ubuntu 8.04
- Topic: Ubuntu recovery image now available
- Replies: 40
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Re: Ubuntu recovery image now available
I've had another attempt at getting this to work but still no luck. This time i installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a spare system and followed the dd method to install the image. No change, same boot error. Since images from other sites install and boot fine from my USB keys i can only assume it is a problem ...
- Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:49 pm
- Forum: Ubuntu 8.04
- Topic: Ubuntu recovery image now available
- Replies: 40
- Views: 67340
Re: Ubuntu recovery image now available
Thanks for the replies! As a test i downloaded an Ubuntu .img and used the same software (win32diskimager as recommended) to put that on my usb flash drive. As soon as that was written the drive was recognisable in Windows (unlike the recovery image) and booted fine on my fit pc so i think i can rul...
- Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:58 pm
- Forum: Ubuntu 8.04
- Topic: Ubuntu recovery image now available
- Replies: 40
- Views: 67340
Re: Ubuntu recovery image now available
After joining the files, decompressing the bz2 and writing the img to my flash drive i get a grub error 2 when trying to boot from it. The format shows up as raw after writing the image (i guess it should be fat32?) so something doesn't seem right. I've tested it on two different flash drives with t...
- Wed May 27, 2009 12:55 pm
- Forum: Ubuntu 9.04
- Topic: Ubuntu won't restart
- Replies: 18
- Views: 67672
Re: Ubuntu won't restart
Thanks for the tips. I will have a go at it this weekend 

- Tue May 26, 2009 4:35 pm
- Forum: Ubuntu 9.04
- Topic: Ubuntu won't restart
- Replies: 18
- Views: 67672
Ubuntu won't restart
Hi, I've installed Ubuntu 9.04 and am having problems restarting it. It goes to a black screen with the text "Restarting system" and then nothing. If i enter "sudo shutdown -r now" from the terminal then the same happens. I installed 9.04 because 8.04 doesn't recognise my 500 gb internal drive but 8...