Re: I just upgraded my linux install and now I can"t boot.

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, HangEveryRepubliKKKan

wrote
on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:34:01 -0800
:
> After several days of playing with Linux

Q: What was that they played on the radio just now?
A: Oh, a song.
Q: But which one?
A: Does it matter?
Q: *splutters*

> I just told the update manager to
> update all components of the OS and all installed programs.

"No plan survives first contact." (Assuming that was a plan.)

>
> After completing it's tasks

its = possessive form
it's = it is

This Pet Peeve(tm) brought to you by Strunk and White.

> my machine now refuses to boot.

Hm. Possible messages at this point.

[1] "LI-". Rerun /sbin/lilo -- if you can find a livedisc.
[2] "Missing operating system." Congratulations; you've
blasted the boot block! Find a livedisc and rerun
/sbin/lilo (for LILO) or grub (for GRUB).
[3] "Cannot find ". If you're using GRUB,
find a livedisc and fix the name.
[4] Screen is blank and remains so. See if your cat
(or your shoe) has accidentally stepped on the power
rocker switch on your power/surge suppressor strip
on the floor somewhere near your feet.
[5] Something else. Something else.

> But will allow
> me to boot to the old version of the OS.

OK, so boot to the old OS and fix /boot.

>
> This is a marginal improvement over a blue screen I suppose.

You're a marginal improvement over a troll. Of course, has it ever
occurred to you that the diagnostic information you've given us, plus
some ground coffee and hot water, might actually fill a cup?

>
> Back to Windows I go until you guys can get your act together...

Oh, of course. Windows Will Fix Everything(tm).

>
> How long is that going to be? Another century?
>

Probably, if Microsoft can in fact get *its* act together
and ensure that each and every desktop machine implement
Trusted Computing(tm), The Computing Solution That Will
Fix Everything(tm). With Trusted Computing you need never
administer your machine again; it will be all done for you
by Microsoft, the INNOVA~1 company with the phunny ideas,
such as phishing, pharming, and phooling.

Microsoft. Where did you want it to go today?

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