I'm having a beast of a time with two things:
I was trying to format a 16-gig Sony thumb drive to exFAT at the command line (the only way you can I think) when I ran into problems. The only thing I was using Gparted for was to find out the Linux name of the Sony drive (for example /dev/sdc1 or whatever it is). Gparted worked at first and gave me the thumb drive's name. However, the commands to turn it into exFAT did not work. Here are the commands I use to format a drive to exFAT:
After running those commands, I started up Gparted to verify that the Sony drive was indeed now an exFAT one. That's when problems started happening like this one:
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I would click on Ignore and another error message like that one would just come up. I couldn't get it to ever finish loading up and ended up having to kill it with Ctrl+Esc. I therefore completely uninstalled it and purged it and then reinstalled it according to the instructions at this link:
http://installion.co.uk/ubuntu/saucy...all/index.html
Then I reinstalled it in Synaptic and rebooted. However, the computer hung on the Lenovo splash screen. I cut power several times and it kept doing the same. I made sure no thumb drives were plugged in and no DVD was in that it was attempting to boot to. Finally I restarted and hit F2 to look at my boot order, and it looked like this:
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WTF? Why are there two listings of Ubuntu in there and a Windows listing? I thought this thing was supposed to be set to simply boot to the hard drive where it would find Grub and give me the choice of Ubuntu or Windows. When I moved Windows to the top, the computer booting straight into Windows 7 without the choice of K/ubuntu. When I moved one of the Ubuntu listings to the top and hit F10 to save and exit, the thing did give me the choice of Ubuntu or Windows. I chose Ubuntu and booted into Kubuntu just fine.
However, when I attempted to run Gparted, I ran into the same trouble as before. A reboot made the PC hang on the Lenovo splash screen as before. Then when I restarted and hit F2 to go to the BIOS, I put the other Ubuntu listing at the top, hit F10 and I was again given the menu for Ubuntu or Windows 7.
It would seem I can only get the boot menu when I F2 into the BIOS, choose my boot order, and then F10 out. What's going on here? And why's Gparted giving me so much grief even after I completely purged it and reinstalled?
My cat, Rosie, was sitting here the whole time wondering why I was so upset. She's not really relevant to the story, but she is awful cute, so I'm posting the photo I took of her just now anyway:
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One more thing in case it's pertinent: In my previous install of Kubuntu, the Grub menu gave me the choice of Kubuntu with a K, several utilities, and Windows 7. In this most recent complete reinstall, (unlike before) it first says, “booting in insecure mode and then gives me the choice of Ubuntu with a U, no utilities, and Windows 7.
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I was trying to format a 16-gig Sony thumb drive to exFAT at the command line (the only way you can I think) when I ran into problems. The only thing I was using Gparted for was to find out the Linux name of the Sony drive (for example /dev/sdc1 or whatever it is). Gparted worked at first and gave me the thumb drive's name. However, the commands to turn it into exFAT did not work. Here are the commands I use to format a drive to exFAT:
sudo mkfs.exfat -n LABEL /dev/sdXn
Replace “LABEL” with the label for your external hard disk and “/dev/sdXn” with the partition id that you recorded earlier.
Replace “LABEL” with the label for your external hard disk and “/dev/sdXn” with the partition id that you recorded earlier.
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I would click on Ignore and another error message like that one would just come up. I couldn't get it to ever finish loading up and ended up having to kill it with Ctrl+Esc. I therefore completely uninstalled it and purged it and then reinstalled it according to the instructions at this link:
http://installion.co.uk/ubuntu/saucy...all/index.html
Then I reinstalled it in Synaptic and rebooted. However, the computer hung on the Lenovo splash screen. I cut power several times and it kept doing the same. I made sure no thumb drives were plugged in and no DVD was in that it was attempting to boot to. Finally I restarted and hit F2 to look at my boot order, and it looked like this:
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WTF? Why are there two listings of Ubuntu in there and a Windows listing? I thought this thing was supposed to be set to simply boot to the hard drive where it would find Grub and give me the choice of Ubuntu or Windows. When I moved Windows to the top, the computer booting straight into Windows 7 without the choice of K/ubuntu. When I moved one of the Ubuntu listings to the top and hit F10 to save and exit, the thing did give me the choice of Ubuntu or Windows. I chose Ubuntu and booted into Kubuntu just fine.
However, when I attempted to run Gparted, I ran into the same trouble as before. A reboot made the PC hang on the Lenovo splash screen as before. Then when I restarted and hit F2 to go to the BIOS, I put the other Ubuntu listing at the top, hit F10 and I was again given the menu for Ubuntu or Windows 7.
It would seem I can only get the boot menu when I F2 into the BIOS, choose my boot order, and then F10 out. What's going on here? And why's Gparted giving me so much grief even after I completely purged it and reinstalled?
My cat, Rosie, was sitting here the whole time wondering why I was so upset. She's not really relevant to the story, but she is awful cute, so I'm posting the photo I took of her just now anyway:
upload image online
One more thing in case it's pertinent: In my previous install of Kubuntu, the Grub menu gave me the choice of Kubuntu with a K, several utilities, and Windows 7. In this most recent complete reinstall, (unlike before) it first says, “booting in insecure mode and then gives me the choice of Ubuntu with a U, no utilities, and Windows 7.
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