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09-04-2011, 04:28 PM

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zalmox

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Registered: Sep 2003

Location: SoCal

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Rep:

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

http://linuxgazette.net/107/tomar.html
http://www.debuntu.org/recover-root-...-mode-and-grub

Kind regards

Thanks a lot! This worked: http://www.debuntu.org/recover-root-...-mode-and-grub

The funny thing is that I changed the password to the exact same password, but now it works.

Now I can't get WiFi to work; it's not even listed in /etc/network/interfaces. I'll search the web for answers, but I might be back with another topic.

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