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Old December 9, 2007, 1:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Recurring Villain View Post
I was dual booting it with Windows and it decided to stop letting me get into Windows and it's drivers didn't work. It was hardly a matter of formatting because then I'd lose everything.
Yeah, but that didn't kill the computer. And you should always have a bootable Linux rescue disc on hand in case something like that happens -- at best, you can fix the problem in a couple of minutes. At worst, you can at least recover all your data.

Originally Posted by Recurring Villain View Post
I tried to install some drivers for my old ATI X600 using Automatix(?), and they refused to work. I restarted the computer and, lo and behold, that thing (GNOME is it?)
GRUB.

Originally Posted by Recurring Villain View Post
that let me choose the OS I booted into was gone and it went straight into Ubuntu.

Luckily a friend of mine was helping me out and he managed to fix the problem.
sudo grub-install hd0

Fixed. (And off the top of my head too.)

Originally Posted by Superkid11 View Post
... and I plan on using the KDE version.
I dislike KDE. GNOME ftw. KDE has too much eye candy for my tastes. Almost like Vista for Linux.
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