Comments on: Say hello to the webbook

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:00:44 +0000

hi adamo
so you have a webbook that isn’t booting past grub. I don’t think there is a bios issue or it wouldn’t get as far as grub, grub is a little program at the very start of the hard disk which then goes and loads the rest of the operating system. If you get a grub prompt then the disk is spinning and talking to the rest of the computer. It would be quite interesting to know what the something is that is not being found. I think the other message you see is when you end up trying to do a PXE network boot using the Realtek network card, I don’t recognise “REALTRACK” as a message that could come up at boot time.

By: adamo

adamo — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:50:57 +0000

Hi,
What is the BIOS SETUP UTILITY settings as our webbook is not working, it stays on the open webbook screen i press DEL to take me to the BIOS SETUP UTILITY screen this has been messed with what are the settings please. Also i get at times a message “REALTRACK” then alot of numbers or i get “GRUB LOADING” message or something not found press any key message can someone help. BIOS SETUP UTILIY settings.

By: Samuel

Samuel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:29:13 +0000

@ Alan Lord: did you ever find the answer to Guy’s question? as I want to know as well

By: Xyem

Xyem — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:49:47 +0000

I recently purchased one of these machines from a computer fair for my girlfriend. We haven’t gotten it running yet because the hard-drive ( and caddy ) was missing from the box.. a packaging error.
We have quite high hopes for this machine, it’ll be getting pushed as far as the hardware ( which we’ll be upgrading ) can go and then some. Reading it can run Compiz from the blog came as quite a surprise

I just wanted to make a small correction. You can use Microsoft Office in Linux using a recent version of Wine, my father who recently converted to Ubuntu currently has that set-up. Some versions ( XP from personal experience ) do not work, refuses to install, but 2003 works well.

Hope this helps

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By: Derek Bird

Derek Bird — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:25:19 +0000

Hi,

Sorry to be a pain but could you provide a link or something to the scripts/images needed for the “keystroke guide to factory restore” tutorial as the DSN is unresolved! Thanks.

By: Derek Bird

Derek Bird — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:04:45 +0000

Thank you….

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:02:24 +0000

ok, all the articles and comments have been restored, but not much else. I will try and get the images back at least, and possibly the old theme, but I am not at all averse to putting a new theme on it.

By: Derek Bird

Derek Bird — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:48:40 +0000

Excellent…

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:08:37 +0000

Elonex don’t seem to care very much about the existence of the webbookblog, or the hundreds of hours of effort that have gone into it. I have no idea why, but I still think it serves a purpose. I have a backup of the site, and I have control of the domain so I think I will put it on one of our servers rather than waiting for someone at Elonex to turn it back on.