Troubles with gnome-format -- Aaarrgghhh

Beartooth Beartooth at comcast.net
Sat May 23 16:29:53 UTC 2009


On Sat, 23 May 2009 15:57:38 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
	[...]
> 	I unmounted, re-mounted, and started looking for something
> readable. /boot/grub/menu.lst says Eeedora! That's neither what got
> zapped nor what I was trying to install -- I suppose it must be left
> over from the rest of the stick after Cruncheee ....
> 
> 	I unmounted and removed it, and will presently try booting the
> EeePC from it. Stay tuned.

	For some reason, whenever I put a thumbstick into the EeePC, it 
offers to boot from either of two. Usually one of those choices leads 
merely to a grub error; it did this time.

	When I chose the other (apparently Eeedora), however, it booted 
Crunchee. 

	Crunchee is what's on the hard drive; my guess is that the first, 
imaginary stick confuses Grub; but that the second simply defaults to the 
hard drive. Iow, that ex-Crunchee stick, which should have F10 Live, and 
pretends to have Eeedora, actually has nothing bootable at all. This 
despite my attempts to format it with gnome-format and to install any of 
several live CDs with liveusb-creator.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.




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