PC does not recognize live CD - I give up!

Karl Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Sat May 15 15:05:55 UTC 2010


On 05/15/2010 08:52 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> Basil Chupin さんは書きました:
>    
>> On 13/05/10 23:56, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
>>
>> I take it that what you are saying here is that the disc boots OK on all
>> other computers EXCEPT your own. Am I correct in this?
>>
>>
>>      
> Good evening from Japan
> I am really sorry to have wasted your time on this.
> Today I went (rather drove) to a computer shop and spoke with the people
> there about the problem.
> Response: incomprehensible! Maybe the motherboard or some other piece of
> hardware somewhere
> does not feel like working with Linux ....
> (some disks boot, others not; is Linux 'just' moody?)
>
> So ... what would be the conclusions?
> Linux works ONLY with some very selected pieces of highly advanced hardware?
> It requires that you have a team of highly educated technicicans available?
>
> For a non-computer freak = an average consumer = me,
> there is *DEFINITELY* (my experience after +3 years of trying) nothing
> user-friendly, easy, or for that matter better in Linux than in the
> despised "Windoze";
> regarding the present problem I asked questions here and elsewhere, very
> knowledgable personsin private, the professionals in a computer shop =
> nowhere anybody can come up with solutions to something that should not
> be a problem in the first place ...
>
> By now I have given up hope and consider this case closed.
> (maybe some people even remember that I caused some commotion with a
> similar problem several months ago, when I could not "mount" a floppy
> under 9.10 - which later, after a very unpleasant discussion, turned out
> to be a bug in 9.10; that too was a problem that should not even exist
> in the first place ...)
>
> Thank you for all your advice.
> Signing off.
>
>
>    
         When you decide to try again, start out with DETAILS about your 
computer :-)

     If you bought the computer tell us the name and model, or say you 
built it. Tell us which mother board your using, and how much RAM. 
Things will work about 95% of the time.

73 Karl


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