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Feb 15, 2011

I'm new to Ubuntu. I resurrected an old laptop with 10.10 and REALLY like it so I thought I try a dual boot system with Win7 on my Toshiba NB305 (2Gb ram, 250Mb HD). I almost gave up after waiting at least 5 minutes to boot and an additional 10 minutes to get it to load a trial run rather than install. After trying a few more times, I downloaded a couple of hours worth of updates and things looked good! It booted off the USB in just under 2 minutes and only took about 5 minutes to load the trial version.

The Fn brightness and volume keys even worked. I figured it would boot fast from the HD. So I decided to install it. The computer will not boot. I get an error to the effect: ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxx does not exist. I found instructions somewhere on this forum written by an ubuntu developer that worked up to a point. I ran blkid and found that ubuntu is on sda3, ext4 and that my uuid that ubuntu can't find is 4179236e-2395-46e2-ba6d-b34a1531d929

I ran:
sudo mkdir /mnt/target
sudo mount -t ext4/dev/sda3 /mnt/target
so far so good.

Then the instruction was to modify the
"# kopt=root" line in /mnt/target/boot/grub/menu.lst
I assumed I was supposed to enter:
sudo gedit /mnt/target/boot/grub/menu.lst

I guess not, because the computer can't find that directory or file. Am I using instructions for an old version? What should I do for unr 10.10?

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Code:
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