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palomino
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Heya guys! I am writing this using my Live CD.
Here is the problem. I have tried to update my ALSA, and turns out it made some kernel changes. The system can't boot now. I have found a solution to this problem by entering some lines in Terminal. It seemed to help a few people, and when I tried to do that (sudo fsck -y /dev/sda1) it told me that sda1 is mounted (that's where my system is) and testing it in it's current condition might cause severe damage. I can un-mount it through GParted, but I wanted to ask you guys if it's safe. And maybe you know some other method.
My Live CD does NOT have a Sytem Recovery option.

EDIT: I've decided to re-install the system completely. But then again, I have stumbled upon a very common problem. Sound doesn't come out of speakers. Headphones work fine, but that's it. Any help would be appreciated.

EDIT2: Forget about it Found out how to do that.
edited 3×, last 28.02.11 12:42:13 pm

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KimKat
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I think it's not safe to boot without the paging file because the pagefile is on the system drive in the windows environment, so when you go back later if you deleted the pagefile the PC probably won't boot at all. I don't recommend deleting the pagefile from the (default drive letter: C:\)? not entirely sure though, maybe it autocreates itself on bootup... I think you need to have settings on it firstly though "wipe pagefile at shutdown" most likely. You can disable the pagefile and put it on a ram disk(USB, flash drive) instead just to be extra safe.

When you're using a Ubuntu Live CD it will just run directly from the CD unless you're installing the operating system in your PC then you'd no longer need the CD but yeah, I don't know much about Ubuntu... I used it only a couple of times.
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