Hi Recenty i helped a friend install Ubuntu 10.04 on his Dell Inspiron machine.
The OS already on board was Wincedows 7 Home Premium. There were 3 partitions 1 small one for Dell Utilities, the second was C:/ and the third was Wincedows Recovery. I changed the boot sequence to make the optical drive the first Using Gparted i made a new extended partition out of C:/ and within this extended created a root , swap and home. Ubuntu installed well and was fully functional , as was the wincedows partitions that showed up - including the recovery partition. A day later my friend says his dell crashed and he cannot access the f2 and f12 keys and nothing boots up This was the error message he got no module name found aborted. press any key to exit intel UNDI. PXE-2.0 (build 083) Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Cproration For Atheros PCIE Ethernet Controller v2.0.2.3(06/18/10) CLIENT MAC ADDR: B8 AC 6F 69 6C D4 GUID: 44454C4C-5300-104E-804C-C8C04F364253 PXE-E53: no boot filename recieved PXE-M0F: exiting intel PXE ROM. operating system not found ** running a search on this i found this http://www.nocrash.com/ncbbs/msgs/3247.shtml and from what i could make out it seemed to be a common hardware problem, esp on Dells. The dell website , among its top 5 problems also shows this problem. ** My first suggestion was take it to dell. I told him to not tell dell that he installed linux as they may make some racket about it and now he feels that linux caused this crash. So am asking for advice, a) how to recover this machine and b) whats the possibility that linux crashed this device as far as b is concerned - i am fairly certain that it not got anything to do with Linux and that bad hardware is to blame. So what is the off chance of Linux being the culprit kind regards
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