Re: [tlug] Cinnamon has crashed

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Brian Chandler <brian@example.com> wrote:
> (1) I am booting the other Ubuntu partition, the one from the snafu
> thread somewhere above this post. I decided to apply the updates, hoping
> that might make it more stable, and once again it complained it wasn't
> able to access some packages (at places like archive.ubuntu.org
> [approx.]). The result is still unstable, and twice I found that


Not being able to access archive.ubuntu.org is not uncommon.  I
sometimes have problems accessing the "main" Ubuntu repositories and
then I end up picking another repository.  I accept the fact that it
is my system's problem after I try a few repositories...

(Under Ubuntu and I think Debian, by editing /etc/apt/sources.list .
Not sure about Mint.)


> How can I just say "Boot from DVD!!" ?


Exactly what Darren says about the DEL key.  Some systems use one of
the function keys like F10.  For a system I'm not familiar with, I try
to hit them all during the 0.25 seconds that the message appears!

Reminds me of those old Whack-a-Mole games at the amusement centres...
Surely someone can turn "Enter BIOS" into a smartphone game.  :-)

Ray