Ubuntu livecd hangs - unable to access my laptop

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Ubuntu livecd hangs - unable to access my laptop

My Acer Aspire Laptop is unbootable.

I'm trying to reinstall Ubuntu 10.04.1. Boot options accessible OK via F2.

In fact, it still leads me into the olg grub2 menu, but I can't use any of the options because of corrupted installations on the various partitions (hence my wish to reinstall). Any type of LiveCD hangs in the middle of the installation.

With ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i385.iso (MD5Sum checked), the installation seems to hang at "Running /script/casper-premount" (when run in non-quite mode), (and nothing seems to happen from there).

I tried various other installations (via UNetBootin eg RescueCD on USB stick etc)... The laptop seems to access both USB and CDROM ok...

My laptop has become totally unusable? What can I do? Is the 'c' option at the old GRUB2 menu of any use?

Any help would be much appreciated - I'm rather desperate to get my laptop working again!

Use linux recovery disk...

http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

Using this you can create and edit your partitions. You need mount this image either on CD or USB.

Adi_aks 2010-09-25 05:32:16

I tried that earlier (via USB), didn't boot into that either

ajo 2010-09-25 05:40:40

Have you tried using system rescue disk????

Adi_aks 2010-09-25 05:55:11

SRD seems to work from CD!

ajo 2010-09-25 06:13:17

the problem now is getting my ubuntu reinstalled ... I guess I have to read the manual -- unless somebody has an easy suggestion (reformat partition and try ubuntu livecd again?)...

ajo 2010-09-25 06:15:51

Reformat the partition and try installing another version of Linux. If it works, that means the initial Ubuntu installation disc was corrupted.

Adi_aks 2010-09-25 06:31:38

Great! Reformatting the partition and using the Ubuntu LiveCD (actually the SAME that I tried before) seems to be working OK. - Hurray, I've got my laptop back again!Thanks everyone.

ajo 2010-09-25 06:32:35

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