<p>Sounds like it's time to provide a temp hard drive withh freedos and bios flash image.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 27, 2012 12:45 PM, "Jim Philips" <<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
To date, no amount of fiddling has gotten me a network connection or<br>
an X session. What I have tried:<br>
<br>
1. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg After this, I get a warning that my<br>
keyboard and mouse are not working. I get a dialogue box that requires<br>
"OK" to get past. With no keyboard and no mouse, I can't get past it.<br>
<br>
2. I tried a wired connection and "ifup eth0". This just tells me that<br>
eth0 is not recognized, even thought it shows up if I run "ifconfig<br>
-a".<br>
<br>
3. Selecting "Networking" from the "Recovery" screen. This gets me a<br>
blinking cursor that never stops.<br>
<br>
4. Using a boot disk. My BIOS gives me a chance to select hard drive<br>
or CD/DVD drive to boot from. Selecting CD/DVD drive brings me right<br>
back to a boot from the hard drive. I think this broke the last time<br>
BIOS updated.<br>
<br>
So, I'm really screwed when it comes to starting Linux. I can't even<br>
do a reinstall. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.<br>
<br>
<br>
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Jim Philips <<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> In Ubuntu 12.10, I tried upgrading the ATI driver to fglrx-updates.<br>
> After this, X wouldn't start. If I start up in recovery mode, there is<br>
> a Networking option. Selecting this starts fsck, which never finishes.<br>
> If I drop to the root prompt, I don't see any way to start wireless<br>
> networking. So, as it stands, I see no way to update any packages. Any<br>
> ideas?<br>
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