[SOLVED] New info during fresh install may explain 18 minute delay in booting.

Gregg Bell · 07-12-2016, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by JeremyBoden

A non-Ubuntu distro would have a slightly different set of video drivers.
Try booting a DVD for a different distro, just to see if it works.
Personally I would favour LMDE, Mint, Debian...

Thanks Jeremy. That's a good idea. When I get some time I'll give it a try. (Maybe I need to bail on Xubuntu. I've used Mint before and found it quite similar to Xubuntu.)

Quote:

Originally Posted by JeremyBoden

Unfortunately your fstab file indicates that your root & /home directories lie in the same partition.
This makes preservation of your data a little bit messy.

So what does that mean? I mean, I understand that they're both on the same partition, but I just did the standard fresh install of 16.04LTS. Should I have done something differently (to separate them)? How is my Home directory data at risk now?

JeremyBoden · 07-12-2016, 02:10 PM

You have a

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00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] BeaverCreek [Radeon HD 6530D]

It would probably cost £20-£30 to replace with a reasonable non-gaming nvidia controller.

If at any time you install, as opposed to an upgrade - for example install a new distro:-
You will overwrite the root directory - which is good, but you will also wipe out the contents of your /home directory - which is bad!

Place your /home directory in a separate partition & all will be well.
There are several methods of accomplishing this.
But you need to move /home to a different partition before any reinstall.

If you have done any fresh installs lately, then expect /home to be virtual empty.
You display your mounted filesystems with the command
df -h

Gregg Bell · 07-12-2016, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JeremyBoden

You have a
It would probably cost £20-£30 to replace with a reasonable non-gaming nvidia controller.

If at any time you install, as opposed to an upgrade - for example install a new distro:-
You will overwrite the root directory - which is good, but you will also wipe out the contents of your /home directory - which is bad!

Place your /home directory in a separate partition & all will be well.
There are several methods of accomplishing this.
But you need to move /home to a different partition before any reinstall.

If you have done any fresh installs lately, then expect /home to be virtual empty.
You display your mounted filesystems with the command
df -h

Thanks Jeremy. Interesting. So like use Gparted to put the Home directory on a separate partition and then do the fresh install on the partition that doesn't have the home directory on it?

Thanks for the pricing info on the video card too.

JeremyBoden · 07-13-2016, 04:37 AM

Basically, yes.

Gregg Bell · 07-13-2016, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JeremyBoden

Basically, yes.

Cool. Thanks.