[Discuss] ASUS EEE

[Patrick]

On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:24:28 -0800
Daniel M German wrote:

[...]
> 
> In the very worst case reset to factory. I can't recall how to do it,
> but the instructions are in the eeeuser web site).

There are two ways that I know of.

One is to open /boot/grub/menu.lst in a text editor [with root
privileges, of course], and change the default=0 to default=2 .
You might have to change it back again after rebooting, or it
might revert to the factory default of 0 .  I'm not sure.

Or just boot from the `recovery' DVD, and type `yes' at the
prompt.

I'm a little annoyed about that one, actually; the confirmation
screen gave *no* indication that it was about to wipe the drive
and reinstall a factory-default system.  It only asked if I
wanted to continue.

But at that point I'd only been messing with it for a week, so it
wasn't too much of a loss.  I'd just hoped to find some disk
utilities, maybe a defragmenter, stuff like that [by the way, yes
there is an e2defrag utility for Linux, but it only works on ext2
filesystems, and only if they're not mounted].

> 
> 
> --dmg

Patrick.

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