I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my external hard disk but now when am booting it on another machine am not able to do as grub wont find new machine as the original one.I want to know if there is any command which i can run during boot only on os selection page which would rebuilt grub and the menu list so that i can use my external hdd more friendly way.
View 9 RepliesI have a little issue here. Im running Ubuntu 10.10 .And sometimes when I boot my screen looks like from 1990. So I chose System->Preference->Appearance and chose the Ambience theme. All the bars and panels looked OK but when I try to search through the filesystem all the windows look like this (picture included).
I found on the Internet how to reset the whole GNOME code...
So I have tried looking on the web for a solution to this, but I can't find anything. I have only found 2 posts with the same problem and both went unanswered. So I want to set my ubuntu machine to WOL with both Magic Packet and Unicast (the g and u functions in ethtool wol) wol supported: pumbg (thus g and u are both supported) I use "sudo ethtool -s eth0 wol ug" and check to see if it changed, and it does
sudo ethtool eth0
"wol: ug"
After I suspend though, only magic packet will wake it up! I go back in and check with "sudo ethtool eth0" and low and behold, it is back to only being "wol g", which is the default. For some reason it must bump back to default before going into suspend. NOTE, this is with suspend, not even a reboot or a shutdown! Even suspend will reset it to default. I have worked on adding a script to /etc/init.d, adding lines to /etc/rc.local, and adding lines to /etc/networking/interfaces, all with no change.
Any idea what is going on and why it is resetting wol back to default?? I know I should be happy at LEAST it does magic packet, but I want to know why it wont change.
The first is I seem to have 3 GRUB installs. So whilst I update the one from my live session, the change does not appear in the boot up menu. I had installed 10.10 from a CD into a different partition (sda6), but that will not boot, so I have just deleted this and done another grub install and update. The kernel I am using has just been updated from 10.04 to 10.10 too, and it is this that I use and the Grub I have been working on (sda5).
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I installed 11.04 after Windows 7. when the GRUB boot menu starts up there is an option for Win 7 boot but it will not boot windows. When that option is selected the screen changes colour for 2 seconds and then reverts to the GRUB menu. Ubuntu boots fine.I downloaded the Boot Info Script and ran it, the results are
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
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I updated yesterday and now when I start my laptop it goes in to grub rescue mode. I have booted from a 'live cd' and thought I could repair grub from there. In gparted however the partition with ubuntu (sda1) is seen as unknown file system, in terminal when I list the partition table it shows up as FAT16 type. When I try a grub-install it gives this error message:
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I have 2 hard disks. sda,sdb
In sda, I have 4 partitions, and I have windows 7 in one of the extended partitions [not in the primary partition].
In sdb, I have 3 partitions. 2 for storage, and 1 10GB drive for Ubuntu. Again, Ubuntu is not of a primary partition.
I had ubuntu 10.04 running on that for a long time. However, I wanted to reinstall ubuntu and use 10.10.This is what I did EXACTLY:Booted from Ubuntu install CD
Chose advanced istall
Selected sdb3 for Ubuntu
I installed GRUB2 on the SAME partition as Ubuntu aka sdb3 Installed then rebooted
I can boot into Ubuntu fine, but whenever I select Windows 7 bootloader from the GRUB menu, the screen goes black, and my PC reboots.
Boot Info:
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ls: reading directory sda6/: Input/output error
I have tried the testdisk/update-grub method, but it didn't work.
So my computer has ubuntu 9.10 installed 1st and I want to install win 7 in a separate partition. Basically, ubuntu 1st, win 7 later so far from what I learned from search results, grub 2 have problem with win 7 installed later and what was recommended was install win 7 before ubuntu. how ever I do not have the time to start over again because there are too many things to back up or install again. can I simply revert grub 2 to grub 1 again and resolve the problem?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a machine with 8.04 LTS, and have dualboot between those i system.The problem is when a start a get a message:'Boot error'If I hit 'Esc' I get to the Grub -meny and can boot as normal.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to dual boot Win7 and Ubuntu WITHOUT using Grub. This is to support Bitlocker encryption.
I followed this guide, and now when I select Ubuntu I get a Grub> prompt and no ubuntu.
I feel like I'm halfway there, I just need to get Grub to load correctly or something.
I updated from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 via Ubuntu updater. Worked nicely. Until I had to use Win 7 for a moment, so I went to the Grub boot menu and picked Win 7. Nothing is happening. Just a black screen with blinking underscore to the top left corner. I never had this problem with 9.10, so I am confused. I tried looking around and nothing helped. Be noted that I am an amateur with Ubuntu coding and installing. I did hear that this is already a common issue now.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have XP, Win7 Pro and F 11 installed. Before I installed F 11, Win 7 boot mgr was working fine. I then installed F 11 and I went to System/Admin/bootloader to edit it and it wouldn't bring up the boot loader. In the attachment was the error msg. Now my only option when I boot up is F 11.
I do not have access to the Win 7 DVD only the F 11 install disk since I am on a fishing trip and need to use Win 7. How can I repair to the grub boot loader to boot into Win 7?
I just set up a dual boot on a system with fedora 12 and XP. XP in on one hard drive (sda) and Fedora on a second hard drive (sdb).
I installed grub on the Fedora disk so as to not touch the windows disk at all.
Prior to installation, in the bios, I set the Fedora disk (sdb) first in the boot sequence, and then XP (sda) so that the grub loader would boot up by default. (If I set the windows drive first then the system bypasses grub and loads straight into windows.)
My system can now boot up into Fedora fine, but if I select windows from the grub loader menu I just get a blinking cursor - windows will not boot.What do I have to do so that grub can boot into XP?
i am trying to change the boot order on the GRUB menu so that the countdown automatically starts on an older kernel. From what i can see all the solutions on the web want me to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. The problem is that i don't have one. Someone also mentioned that if i don't have a menu.lst file then i should look for the grub.conf file. I don't have on of those either. The closest thing in /boot/grub is grub.cfg but that looks nothing like the descriptions i have heard of /boot/grub/menu.lst file
View 5 Replies View Relatedwe have an oracle application server on red hat 4.6 upon booting it comes up with error: attempting boot from hard drive (c GRUB)
View 2 Replies View RelatedI found a little info in the ubuntu help info but their method (using the grub command line to find the USB, then using chainloader +1 to boot from it) did not work. heir method of using a minimal linux kernal sounds extraordinaraly complex, and perhaps not even possible since I do not have a CD drive in this computer.The problem is, I cannot boot my netbook from the USB anymore. The netbook is an EeePC 900HD, which ran WinXP originally. I was able to access the BIOS before installing UNR and set it to boot from the USB before the HD.
However, it now appears that this grub thing has replaced the netbook's original BIOS and now I cannot boot from the USB anymore. Using Google, I found info in the Ubuntu documentation that details how to boot from USB with grub, but their method did not work. When I use the grub commands to identify the various HDs, I get the following:
"root (hd0,0)" returns "error: no such partition."
"root (hd0,1)" returns "(hd0,1): Filesystem is ntfs" [THIS IS MY WINDOWS XP PARTITION]
"root (hd0,2)" returns "(hd0,2) : Filesystem is unknown" [I THINK THIS IS MY UBUNTU PARTITION"
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I am doing a pure 10.04 Ubuntu installation (no other OS involved) on a NEW hard drive. I am doing this with an alternate install CD.Like the person in the other post, I am receiving this menu:
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GNU GRUB version 1.98-1ubuntu5Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. for the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions.
grub>_
It's an improvement since I was in the grub rescue mode for a while there.ls command lists the following devices (hd0) and (hd0,1). The root directory is (hd0,1).I've tried formatting with Parted Magic and the "live CD" doesn't boot.Could you please give some help which isn't too technical: I really am lacking in patience here as this has been going on for several days. And I've been trying to decode [URL]I can get into the grub.cfg file using Parted Magic and it looks like this:
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# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
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I have 3 hard drives:
ubuntu
win 7
win xp
I cant seem to update-grub and find my windows xp hard drive. I can boot it threw bios tho, but i would like boot loader to work.
I installed F14 from my usb according to the wiki page using unetbootin. The usb boots perfectly and i get a working F14 system. I partitioned my HD with gparted and got a /,/home and swap partition, then used the installer to install the system using them. The installer finishes without a problem and ask me to reboot. When I reboot , there is a blank black screen. No grub menu , no fedora loading. I reboot with the usb and the partitions are full with the files from F14 , there is no xorg.log in the /var/log/ so f14 doesn't even start so the problem seems to be with grub.
I check the grub.conf in /boot/ , i set the timeout to 5 secs , i check that the kernel is using nomodeset (according to this wiki page there is a problem with ati), xorg.conf is using vesa as a driver and I reinstall grub with grub-install with no problems.My notebook is a acer aspire 5552 , i don't think is a hardware problem because I've used arch and opensuse with no problems in it. Fedora seems a nice distro , but this error is preventing me from using it.
I'm a long time windows user and it-tech but I have long felt that my geek-levels were too low so I installed Ubuntu last week (9.10 x64). Hopefully I can make it my primary OS. I have two 80GB drives in RAID-1 from my nforce raid controller, nforce 570 chipset. Then a 320 GB drive where I placed ubuntu and it's also where grub placed itself. And also a 1TB drive.
When grub tries to boot XP I get the error message: "error: invalid signature" I checked the forum as much as I could and tried a few things, but no change.
Drives sdc and sdd are the two drives in raid, they are matched exactly, but detected as different here. I really think they should be seen as one drive.
how I can make grub work as it should?
Also, if/when I need to make changes to grub, do I really have to use the live CD?
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=> Grub 1.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive
in partition #1 for /boot/grub.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc
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I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 Dual boot with Windows Xp. I can't boot my Ubuntu, I received grub error message during startup. I've installed back grub with below command, but still I can't boot into Ubuntu. I've been prompted to sh:grub> upon starting the computer.
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but I stucked at second line, it said "no such disk". I've also ran the bootinfoscript, and here is the result:
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When booting a fresh install of Karmic 9.10 grub grumbles quite a bit. I do have 2 600gb sata drives with various partitions but never have the older grubs taken a solid 15 seconds to sort out the drives before launching.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a triple boot system running Ubuntu, WinXP, and Win7.I had Ubuntu running fine on its own partition (sda1) but an upgrade from Karmic to Lucid turned it into a dog.So I tar-ed my /home filesystem, split sda1 into 2 new extended partitions, then did a clean install of Lucid with / on sda5, and /home on sda6.I should also mention that I have already tried re-installing Grub from a live USB to no avail.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've got Ubuntu 10.04 installed on one partition, and Windows Vista on another. I was messing around with my partitions, and now I can't boot to either one. I just get an error when I boot up on GRUB which says "error: no such partition", and then a prompt saying 'grub rescue>'. I've read up on other people's posts, and they said that I should reinstall GRUB from a livecd, but that doesn't look like it does anything. It seems that GRUB is trying to boot from hd0,8, and that doesn't exist anymore. I can change the 'root' and 'prefix' variables to the right partitions, but the 'boot' or 'chainloader' command doesn't work. You should be able to boot from 'grub rescue>', because that's what it's for, right?
I just want to be able to boot into Ubuntu, not Windows.
PS: Sorry if I'm specifying way too much information(or not enough), I'm fairly new to forums.
I'm trying to fix the partitions on my laptop. how it was setup before I made the change:
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I shrunk the windows partition to about 150 gigs, and used the unallocated 25 or gigs and formatted it as ext4 and copied dev/sda1 to it. Now I have all the same as above now with
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I had two installations of ubuntu and deleted the sda1 partition. Now I get a GRUB Error 17 when I boot. I'm in a live CD and I have access to a console, how can I reconfigure GRUB?
I am dual booting Windows Vista and Ubuntu 10.04 with WUBI. (Windows works fine). When I updated Ubuntu from the update manager, it just gives me this error code from a JPG attachment I just added with this post. It keeps on saying that every time ubuntu boots up.Is there a Fix? I cant boot up to ubuntu at all...
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have (only bc i have to) windows vista, also Ubuntu 10.04 on the same drive, and dual-booting is no issue at all. But after I installed Mandriva 2010 to try to triple boot, i couldn't find Ubuntu anymore so I got rid of mandriva, and grub was messed up bc I deleted all mandriva partitions. So then I installed Xubuntu 9.10 (because it is a quick install) to recover grub, and with Xubuntu, Ubuntu, and vista, Grub sees all three OSes no problem. So what would I have to do to make Grub work this way when I install Mandriva?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI had Windows XP installed on my PC then bought a new HDD, installed Windows 7 & Ubuntu 10.10 in dual boot, later I added the Windows XP HDD as an external USB then typed "update-grub".
At boot up the drive appears at the bottom of the GRUB menu but when I select Windows XP it gets as far as the XP splash screen, after a few seconds there is a flash of blue screen with some writing on it then the PC re-boots. Here is grub.cfg:
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# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
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