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Linux - Laptop and Netbook Having a problem installing or configuring Linux on your laptop? Need help running Linux on your netbook? This forum is for you. This forum is for any topics relating to Linux and either traditional laptops or netbooks (such as the Asus EEE PC, Everex CloudBook or MSI Wind).

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Old 03-23-2009, 09:37 AM   #1
alf_frommars
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After fsck all boot device are disabled, so no startup at all


hello everyone, hope someone can help me out with this.
I have a laptop (packard bell easynote) and had win xp and ubuntu running on it. Suddenly grub did not work as mij xserver. so My brother told me to use fsck. I had to answer several "fix question" wich I all (dumber than dumb) anwered yes.

When I try to boot, All my devices are disabled (HDDISK, CDROM AND FLOPPY)

hope someone can help me out!!

thank you very much!!

greetings, ALf
 
Old 03-25-2009, 06:05 AM   #2
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What do you mean as "disabled"? Yuo cannot boot from none of the disks? What is the boot order in BIOS? You should try to boot from a separate CD (e.g. a live distro). Can you do that?
 
  


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