TAG | Hardy Heron – my odd first experiences |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Saturday, 26 April 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 4 When I’d seen that Ubuntu boot screen, I was very happy. But my happiness soon turned to dismay upon being presented with a command line. Featured Whitepaper
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But not having delved much into Linux, I had a look around at the on-screen help, before rebooting the computer and going back to Windows Vista. Once there, I loaded up Google and typed in the PCI bug listed above, as well as BusyBox. Now, I’m very proficient with computers, and am quick to learn, but the answers seemed to indicate that the PCI Bios Bug #81 was an old problem, and didn’t seem to matter – plenty of people were running different versions of Ubuntu despite this ‘bug’. I also found lots of info about BusyBox, but none of it seemed helped. So, I loaded up Wubi again, and chose to uninstall Hardy Heron. This is did, very quickly, and after it ended, there was no recommendation to reboot the computer. So I didn’t. What I did next was to run Wubi again, and go through the same installation process. It took a few minutes once more, after which it wanted me to reboot. This I did immediately, and when the dual boot screen came up, I dutifully chose Ubuntu. But this time, instead of even momentarily seeing the Ubuntu boot screen, I was thrown into a GRUB command line interface. Grrreaaat. My Ubuntu experience was going swimmingly so far. What in Mark Shuttleworth’s name was going on? I rebooted back into Windows Vista with a sense of disappointment and dread. Not really giving things much hope, I loaded Wubi again and uninstalled Ubuntu anew. Then after the installation process, I rebooted the computer. Once I was back into Vista, I went back to Wubi, and tried installing Hardy Heron for the third time, hoping I’d be third time lucky, but not really expecting the experience to be any different from the first two times. Once it had installed, it wanted me to reboot. But this time... things were different. Excitingly so! If you want to know how... please read onto page 3! |
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