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Re: Grub hell

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On Friday, September 9, 2016 at 11:39:11 PM UTC-5, Crawford Sausage Company wrote:
> On Friday, September 9, 2016 at 10:20:01 AM UTC-5, barbie gee wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Crawford Sausage Company wrote:
> > 
> > > This new gaming machine can't go more than 12 hours
> > > before freezing up.  I don't know if it's this cheap
> > > ass Lenovo or Ubuntu 16.04 which has been a very
> > > problematic install.
> > >
> > > tl;dr I need to rant
> > >
> > > <rant>
> > > I started googling based on syslog messages and
> > > one of the things to try is turn acpi off in grub
> > > which directs the bootloader.  I haven't played
> > > with grub in many years so am a bit rusty.
> > > They changed everything around once again.
> > > I put in the acpi=off in the right place and reboot
> > > and then nothing but a blank screen.  Fuck!!!!!
> > >
> > > Now in the old days when you fucked with grub and
> > > made a mistake you simply hit e and edit the line
> > > in the start menu.  Or  boot from CD and edit
> > > grub.conf which was always in /boot/grub or /boot
> > > in the real old days.  You used a text editor and
> > > that was that.
> > >
> > > Now it's so fucking complicated I'm not really
> > > sure what I did.  The actual bootloader
> > > is some windows executable on its own fat32
> > > partition so somehow that needed to be rebuilt
> > > which required a special gui tool plus a
> > > lot of copy/pasting and I don't know what it
> > > was doing to rebuild whatever the fuck was
> > > in /EFI/Boot directory.  Then if you forget
> > > to compile this thing with Secure Boot off
> > > you're fucked again and have to do the entire
> > > god damned thing over again.
> > >
> > > I tried to do it without the gui but all the
> > > howtos were out of date even though they
> > > were written in 2015.
> > >
> > > What a fucking cluster fuck.  It was a joy
> > > when it boot again and I'll never fuck with
> > > grub again.
> > >
> > >
> > > </rant>
> > >
> > >
> > > I hate taking shit back but I really want
> > > to pack this Lenovo up and trade it in for
> > > a box that cost twice as much.  I suspect/hope
> > > it's a cooling issue since it has been very hot
> > > inside here the last few days.  The cooling system
> > > in this cheap ass box looks rinky dink.  Once
> > > fall hits it will be very cool inside.
> > 
> > test yer "too hot" theory by having a fan blow on the machine to improve 
> > cooling.
> > 
> > or turn on the damned air conditioner...
> 
> Summer is pretty much over.  I did use an air conditioner earlier
> this week for the first time this season because it was so hot
> and muggy.
> 
> I would be happy if it was just a cooling problem.  That can be fixed.
> I switched the
> drive back to Windows 10 and will run it all weekend.  If it doesn't
> crash for Windows then it's an Ubuntu problem, possibly some weirdness
> with this high end graphics card required for gaming.  If it crashes then
> back to Microcenter it goes.  It's nice being able to physically bring
> something back instead messing with shipping.

It's an Ubuntu problem  Windows 10 is stable. The hardware all checks
out using their diagnostics.   Good news I don't have
to deal with a return, bad news I have to use Windows 10.  Just when
I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

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