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Windows andLinux

March 5, 2008 in Linux | No comments

AndLinux is a free Linux system based on Ubuntu running under Windows. This works under Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server and also Vista. It is something like a virtual system.

In andLinux Linux is not running under a separate window as in a traditional emulators; instead, programs run under andLinux will have its own windows, so that they would be much different from Windows programs.

AndLinux acts as a Windows service so you can set it to start automatically or start it manually when you want. Another great advantage of this is that you can install any Linux software on this without going through any conversion process; that is, you can use all the Linux programs you love on windows.

And the best thing is that for those of you who have devices which don’t have Linux drivers (mainly modems – ya, I also had that problem), it’s no more a problem. You don’t need drivers!

andLinux is also great if you are new to Linux. Because installing Linux on a computer with Windows isn’t very simple.

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Error 15: File not found

March 5, 2008 in Linux | 6 comments

Yesterday (I’m writing this on 4th March), I switched on my computer, which has Kubuntu 7.10, and went to get the refrigerator to get something to eat. When I came back I saw the message Error 15: File not found. I thought maybe it’s a random error and I restarted the computer – It was still there.

Then I went to the boot menu and tried to boot with the recovery option, but it also gave the same error. Main problem was the simplicity of the error and it gave no clue of what was wrong for me. After that I booted up the computer with the live CD and still I couldn’t find anything. So I thought of getting some advice from an expert: Sandaruwan.

He said it’s probably a problem with locating the kernel and that I must check whether everything specified in the /boot/grub/menu.lst are present in relavent locations. But when I went back to the computer after the call it seemed that it was stuck (it was running on Kubuntu 7.10 live CD).

Therefore I removed the CD and rebooted planning to check which command went wrong using edit commands before booting ‘e’ and command-line ‘c’.

I entered each of the commands in the command prompt and found that initrd caused the trouble.

Initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

It appeared that the file /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic was not there; instead a backup file /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic.bak was present. So I edited the command to point to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic.bak and booted. After the computer successfully booted up I made a copy of the backup file in the name /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic.

Probably the problem would have been an failed upgrade which has backed up the file but not replaced it; however it could have been very convenient if the error message showed which file was missing :P .

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