I love Ubuntu!!!
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:23 am
I totally love Ubuntu right now!
Even though the kernel doesn't have "built-in" drivers for my graphics card so I can't actually run it I still love it!
Why you might ask, well...
...sometimes I'm a complete idiot, so I tried to install 11.04 on my other 80GB hard drive and when I realized it didn't work I went into Windows and formatted the 80GB HDD completely removing Ubuntu AND the bootloader! I didn't think about it at the time and it's been working perfectly the last week since I never turn my PC off. But then, this night it happened, Windows Update thought it would be funny to restart my computer!
I tried to fight it by opening a bunch of programs and then pressing on the cancel button when it politely asks "Do you want me to force shutdown these applications", but that screen never came up. No matter how much junk I opened, it just kept terminating it like a merciless pig!
So you know, I went with the flow until my screen read "GRUB: no device <random numbers and letters>". I immediately thought it had tried to boot onto the 80GB HDD so I rapidly pressed F8 when the computer restarted to boot from my other main HDD, but no. The screen read the same.
And this had to happen on the very day I had erased my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bits DVD-RW just to load on some crappy movie I didn't even end up watching! For a second I thought it was a plot, a conspiracy against me. I gave up that thought pretty quickly when I realized I still had the Ubuntu install CD. Awesome as I am, I booted with the CD and ran Ubuntu "live" from the CD and fixed my MBR with MS-SYS!
And that is the amazing tale of I gained access to Windows again! All under 20 minutes!
Excuse the sloppy writing, spelling. It's 4:18 AM, I have cold, a headache and I haven't eaten in one and half days.
Even though the kernel doesn't have "built-in" drivers for my graphics card so I can't actually run it I still love it!
Why you might ask, well...
...sometimes I'm a complete idiot, so I tried to install 11.04 on my other 80GB hard drive and when I realized it didn't work I went into Windows and formatted the 80GB HDD completely removing Ubuntu AND the bootloader! I didn't think about it at the time and it's been working perfectly the last week since I never turn my PC off. But then, this night it happened, Windows Update thought it would be funny to restart my computer!
I tried to fight it by opening a bunch of programs and then pressing on the cancel button when it politely asks "Do you want me to force shutdown these applications", but that screen never came up. No matter how much junk I opened, it just kept terminating it like a merciless pig!
So you know, I went with the flow until my screen read "GRUB: no device <random numbers and letters>". I immediately thought it had tried to boot onto the 80GB HDD so I rapidly pressed F8 when the computer restarted to boot from my other main HDD, but no. The screen read the same.
And this had to happen on the very day I had erased my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bits DVD-RW just to load on some crappy movie I didn't even end up watching! For a second I thought it was a plot, a conspiracy against me. I gave up that thought pretty quickly when I realized I still had the Ubuntu install CD. Awesome as I am, I booted with the CD and ran Ubuntu "live" from the CD and fixed my MBR with MS-SYS!
And that is the amazing tale of I gained access to Windows again! All under 20 minutes!
Excuse the sloppy writing, spelling. It's 4:18 AM, I have cold, a headache and I haven't eaten in one and half days.