computer broke

[Michael Havens]

 Sorry about my last message. I wrote it last night at around 3:30 in the
morning.

Okay, here is the deal: The computer with Mint on it will not boot from the
hard drive. Only from the CD. As such I have Mint running on it. On The
Ububntu system (I have two computers going) I installed the 3.1.4 kernel
too but it didn't like it either. The screen just goes blank if I run 3.1.4
and it gives me the kernel boot option if I restart it (every other time).
I tried synaptic (had to apt-get it) to remove the kernel but it wasn't in
the package list. I think that is because it is a newer kernel.

Hmmmm..... I changed the boot order in Mint and it now is giving the option
of choosing kernels (on every other power down). Now I can boot the laptop
too.


On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:07 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds kinda like your video drivers are freaking out.  Can you still boot
> to external media?
>
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Why in the world don't I leave good enough alone! Well, I installed mint
>> and everything was perfect. The grafics were good, the sound was good,
>> everything was good after I installed the 3.1.4 kernel. Then I found out I
>> wasn't taking advantage of my 64bit processor so I reinstalled with a 64bit
>> operating system. That made things slower. So I reinstalled the 32 bit os
>> and everything went to hell! The screen now 'jumps ' around like it is
>> switching between desktops sometimes. I tried to install the 3.1.4 kernel
>> but that didn't work. uname -r reveals me kernel is still 3.0.0-12....
>> well, at least it hasn't crashed..... ohhhhh right after the kernel
>> finished installing it did crash (the caps lock light started blinking and
>> it froze). and the panicing has started! It doesn't tell me it has paniced
>> but the caps lock button starts flashing and it locks up like in a panic.
>> So I was thinking that perhaps this was because I extracted the .deb
>> files through the GUI this time; so I did it through a shell and now after
>> the option to enter bios the screen goes black. I tried hitting the escape
>> key after the option to enter bios but it does nothing. It hasn't even
>> entered runtime 1 (me thinks). Eek gads!
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