Re: Thinkpad T60P: bricked by grub transition

2009-08-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,05.Aug.09, 08:53:48, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > Thanks for posting this; I'll keep it in reserve. I was caught by the > > same trap on a similar machine (Thinkpad Z61M) a couple of weeks ago and > > was rescued by a knowledgeable poster on this l

Re: Thinkpad T60P: bricked by grub transition

2009-08-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,05.Aug.09, 08:53:48, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Thanks for posting this; I'll keep it in reserve. I was caught by the > same trap on a similar machine (Thinkpad Z61M) a couple of weeks ago and > was rescued by a knowledgeable poster on this list. I can now boot again > although I no longer

Re: Thinkpad T60P: bricked by grub transition

2009-08-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Aug 2009, James McCloskey wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > |> You might want to keep a copy of this handy: > |> http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ > > Indeed. But I think I sorted this out (or at least I have succeeded in making > the > system boot at least once). In case anyone finds themse

Re: Re: Thinkpad T60P: bricked by grub transition

2009-08-04 Thread James McCloskey
Rob Owens wrote: |> You might want to keep a copy of this handy: |> http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ Indeed. But I think I sorted this out (or at least I have succeeded in making the system boot at least once). In case anyone finds themselves in a similar situation, this was what worked for

Re: Thinkpad T60P: bricked by grub transition

2009-08-04 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Osamu Aoki (os...@debian.org) wrote: |> Hi, Thank you very much for this very helpful message. |> > I'm writing to this address since I'm not sure what else to do. |> |> Hmmm .. Read BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/grub-pc Yes. I wanted to file a bug (and I will) but at the time I wr

Re: Thinkpad T60P: bricked by grub transition

2009-08-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:40:33AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I'm writing to this address since I'm not sure what else to do. > > > I would really appreciate hearing whatever advice might be available > and I will be happy to try to test fixes and post results and so on. > You might want