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@Wirezfree
Think I've seen some wheres Grub (LL) likes being the control.... May have been with a LL Mint and Windows set up..
It caught my eye as my 1 box that's multi-booting Win7, Mint and LL..
I keep saying I'm gonna build a VM of each OS
If I look hard enough I can probably find systems (hardware) with those OS's installed...
The mini is multi-booting Win7 and LL (that one has FreeNAS VM) although I have another system running Win7 with Win98-SE, XP, Mandriva and Window 2012 VM's..
Oh for "nostalgia" you also need Millennium and Vista LOL :-X
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Colin...
Have you tried LL in safe mode?
I'm not in front of any of my LL machines... But I think when GRUB comes up, there is typically 2 entries for Linux Lite, the 2nd one being safe mode...
Again I don't recall much about it (prompts etc.) But it may help to confirm a successful boot...
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Yes you can backup your entire home folder. When you create your new 2.6 build, create a /home partition. At the end, restore your entire home folder to the new /home partition. In the future, if you ever need to reinstall, you'll only be affecting your root (/) partition, and your /home partition will be in tact.
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Last comment, not my thread/topic. I used original media, never had ME or Vista.
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Hi Torrydale
Quote:Yes you can backup your entire home folder. When you create your new 2.6 build, create a /home partition. At the end, restore your entire home folder to the new /home partition. In the future, if you ever need to reinstall, you'll only be affecting your root (/) partition, and your /home partition will be in tact.
I have installed 2.6 using the Flash drive in root/ with a new partition for /Home .
I was able to login OK and set up a Temp user account
I then copied my backup of (Home old ) back to the new (Home)
I can Login as Temp OK but I cannot get past the log on page with my Colin account as every time I input the password ( used same one in new install ) the splash screen goes off and reverts back to login . I set the new install to auto login as i had in 2.4
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I'm confused.
What was the purpose of creating a Temp user account? What account and password did you use to login and create the Temp account? And what account and password combination did you use when you installed LL 2.6?
If the Temp account is in the sudo group, then it has administrative rights. If so, you can use that account to reset the password to your Colin account.
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