Given the general spikiness of train power, and resulting intermittent crashings, the fix to that GRUBby one might just be to configure the "I'll boot option "0" if you don't pick another within 30 seconds" parameter, which is usually the GRUB default.
Helsinki Syndrome: Ubuntu utterly fails to boot on metro
Bork knows no borders, be they geographical or technological, as demonstrated by this Ubuntu installation getting funky on the Helsinki metro. Of course, we have only the word of the GNU GRUB bootloader for that, judging by the image sent in by an eagle-eyed Register reader. Not that one needs to be that eagle-eyed when a …
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Wednesday 28th April 2021 09:58 GMT Anonymous Coward
Hopefully..
.. that puts a nail in the wailing that "if it had only been Linux it would have worked".
Not that I agree with it in general, but to hear that every. single. time. (and let's face it, Windows goes wrong a lot) is tiring to the point that no amount of caffeine can prevent the resulting yawn.
Also note that Ubuntu is becoming more and more Windows compatible since it teamed up with MS.
I'll go and hide now :).
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Wednesday 28th April 2021 10:39 GMT ibmalone
Re: Hopefully..
I can't say for sure it would have worked, but the default for that (not actually linux) grub screen is usually to boot the default (normally first) option after a certain time (default 5 seconds). So to get here that has either been disabled or a key has been pressed to interrupt it. It's the equivalent of starting windows boot manager and then leaving it there.
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Wednesday 28th April 2021 15:57 GMT Stoneshop
Re: Hopefully..
My windows pc borks every time I install software.
Ah, my work laptop suffers from that, too. Also when Microsoft flings out a new bunch of patches, the patches for those patches, or just for no readily apparent reason. It can also signal a desire for borking by just having some function, like copy/paste, cease to perform.
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Thursday 29th April 2021 22:52 GMT jake
Re: Hopefully..
As I've been saying for at least a decade, Ubuntu has many of the same problems that Redmond and Cupertino have, and for the same exact reason. That reason? Trying to be all things to all people ... a task that not even one of the many "Gods" invented by humans have managed to do, not even in myth and fable.
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Wednesday 28th April 2021 11:33 GMT Fred Flintstone
Re: Nemo propheta in patria
Well, even Monty Python sang about it.
I occasionally send that to a friend in Helsinki - I'm not sure he's representative of all Fins, but his sense of humour is *very* well developed so good natured windups are simply part and parcel of our interactions :).
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Thursday 29th April 2021 23:30 GMT jake
Re: Nemo propheta in patria
"I doubt they could."
Thus my colophon.
What's even funnier (or sadder, depending on perspective) is the folks who have a knee-jerk reaction to downvote people commenting on downvotes. Do you suppose they think they are actually accomplishing anything useful?
inveniet quod quisque velit; non omnibus unum est, quod placet; hic spinas colligit, ille rosas
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Wednesday 28th April 2021 14:55 GMT MacroRodent
M100
The Helsinki Metro isn't that old. The eldest M100 model train is from 1977, the latest from 1984 (https://www.hel.fi/hkl/en/by-metro/fleet/m100/). It opened for passengers only in August 1982, with a rump of a line (did not even to to the center of the city yet). Test trains had been rolling for years before that.
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Wednesday 28th April 2021 18:14 GMT Finnish Anonymous Coward
Haven't seen those lately. Although a year working remotely and not even having the courage to step into that metro might have something to to with it. A few years ago those kind of sights where quite common on every metro station. but that's another case. They were actually testing something related to the west extension of our practically single metro line. Not everything went smoothly, but it was only a few weeks. Since then, the only bork I've seen was at my nearest metro station, but everything was so messed up that it was totally impossible to even guess the operating system responsible for it from that garble on the screen.
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Thursday 29th April 2021 04:29 GMT Anonymous Tribble
"Let those who never pondered a trip to the Isle of Wight for a last hurrah aboard its dodgy old 1938 ex-London Underground rolling stock raise their hand now. Just us then?"
I have pondered such a trip. But for a "first hurrah", not a last one. Last time I went to the Isle of Wight was before the 1938 stock was introduced. It was 1923 stock in those days.
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Thursday 29th April 2021 05:56 GMT Anonymous Coward
Where are all the real engineers?
Funny, fixing things is my day job and most of the time it's usually hardware that's the culprit, following by the application software a distant second, rarely the O.S. it would be interesting to hear from a 'real' engineer rather than a board changer as to the actual stock faults on these signs.