Thank God For Miracles!

You're right PM. Just seeing the next to the last person getting pulled up now. They mentioned that the last few men took around 9 minutes from bottom to top to get out (they were planning that it would take over 40 minutes to do this originally). I hope it's not a go fever issue and that they still are using prudent practices to get these men out, but so far, so good. It still amazes me that these guys survived so long under tons of rubble. Kudos to the Chileans and also to the folk that has contributed to this amazing rescue feat.

Now seeing the last miner come up. This is excitingly wonderful for sure. No longer even want to vent since this is really making me happy for some reason. Again, an amazing feat.

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All the miners are out. Wow! Again kudos to the people of Chile; pretty impressed with their President too. We can use leaders like him here for sure.

Nasa helped too!

Suffice it to say that the U.S. was instrumental in getting these men out PM. NASA definitely had the know how that helped these men survive past the initial 17 days. Also, it was a company that, I believe, is located in Pensylvania that made the special impactor drill system that was crucial for the "elevator" (en lieu of another term) to operate as it did. Lots of countries in total help. It was their President that had the intelligence to solicit that help. He could have just done every bit of it himself, but he was man enought to know the limits involved and prudent to get the right help from the right people/countries. That's the true definition of a great leader. I see many years for this man. The people now have a real leader to look up too as opposed to the Hugo wannebes (and Chaves himself) that are ruining there respective countries.

Many people can learn from him.

I agree lyle, this President was outstanding. He treated everyone as equals and stayed right to the end. He had emotion written on his face the whole time this rescue was taking place. I sure wish we had a leader like him..
This was more than a miracle...

Maybe we may go back in theme ?

i discover that at the end of all my attempt i do have a linux partition with a working ubuntu

problem is that i get apparently judging from the grub loading screen about 8 partition


3 ubuntu thingy none working
1 misterious "vista loader " (i never installed vista in my life)
2 windows 7 loaders (only 1 work...both instead then just start win straight away , offer instead again the option to load ubuntu..the option doesn't work )
and finally one more ubuntu kernel that..miracle !! really load ubuntu 10.10


BIG QUESTION

i just delete everything except win (and how ? if i delete Grub i can't load anymore win)
or there is some way to detect what is connected with the working partition with ubuntu 10.10 and delete the rest ?

PhotoComix,

If I remember correctly the Vista Loader is the name used by grub for either Vista or Windows 7. If you have either version of Windows, the grub installer identifies them in this fashion.

One of the easiest ways to determine the partition holding the OS is through the use of gparted; this utility is present on the LiveCD, but is usually removed near the end of the install process. It is available in the Ubuntu repositories. If you have multiple drives in your machine, there is a drop-down box in the upper right corner that allows you to select the physical drive for gparted to examine.

Note that the /(root) partition has the boot flag set in the right column; this is the partition this OS boots from.

You may also want to look at the file /etc/fstab. This file is a text file-table of the partitions used by the OS, and may include a scary looking UUID number. This is a Universally Unique IDentifier that very clearly and unmistakably identifies the partition to the OS - it is basically a hash generated to ID the partition. Anyhow, in fstab, following the UUID would be the mount point where the OS can access the file system, followed by options the OS uses when mounting and accessing the file system. In older versions of Grub, there was an option as to whether grub would use the older partition naming scheme such as "/sda2" or use UUIDs.

This is my current fstab on the same system I am using right now:


I don't know if you have(had) your partitions set up this way, but most "advanced" users are recommending installing so that the Linux OS actually uses three partitions.The first partition is the one used by the OS itself: /(root). The second is the partition where all your personal stuff will be stored: /home. Third is the swap partition: linux-swap. By setting up your partitions in this fashion, if you do get a messed up upgrade or if you totally screw up a program install, you can fix it by re-installing the OS into the /(root) partition and pointing the installer to the /home partition (Note: If doing this type of OS recovery, remember to tell the installer during partition to NOT format the /home partition, this is VERY IMPORTANT! If the installer formats the /home partition, all your personal files in your home directory will be lost.) Unless the installation script has changed, you may have to manually set up your partitions, which is an installer option.

If you need more help, let me know; since I like to experiment with my system, I've broke and repaired it many times and might be able to at least point you in the right direction. My current system is LinuxMint 9 (an Ubuntu-based distro), but before that I had LinuxMint 8 and it was the longest-lasting OS I'd ever had.