Ubuntu Installation :: Unable To Boot 10.04 Or 10.10
Nov 25, 2010
I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a PC for my nephew and carried out all the updates. Then I hit a daft streak and decided to upgrade it to 10.10. Everything went OK until I rebooted the PC when all that happened was the LEDs on the monitor started to flash on and off in unison. Booting into a live session had the same result.
Re-install 10.04 would be a sensible option but when I tried to do this and later on 9.10, all I got was 'error: no such device' It does display Ubuntu Linux 2.6.31-14-generic and the recovery mode + a memory check option but when I select the default highlighted option that is when I get this error message. I've also tried to reformat the drive by putting in an XP disc but after installing Ubuntu the result is the same. If ever there was a case of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' this is it. So what do the flashing LEDs mean and how can I fix the broken boot part of the system?
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Jul 18, 2010
I have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Windows XP installed on my laptop. Usually when booting, I get the GRUB 2 menu and I can boot into either Ubuntu or XP.I was playing around with EasyBCD, then after trying to remove it I was unable to boot into Windows, I used a Windows 2000 CD recovery console to fix the MBR (using: fixboot and fixmbr).Now Windows starts up when I power on, but I don't get the grub menu anymore with an Ubuntu option. If I boot from the Ubuntu Live CD and try to mount my Ubuntu partition (/dev/sda5) I get this error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda5,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
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Feb 15, 2010
After installing karmic with Grub2 I am unable to boot into Archlinux partition. Grub2 has removed the last line of the Archlinux boot stanza! It used to read:-
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Following the Grub2 tutorials I have tried editing /etc/grub.d/40_custom as follows:-
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But no luck. Only way into Archlinux is to get into the edit shell and manually add the missing line and remove other stuff not needed. I have spent hours trying to resolve this issue and I am fairly p----d off
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Feb 15, 2011
I can only use the Live CD to operate Ubuntu. After typing in the command sudo fdisk -l, I get the following?
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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And when I boot without the Live CD, I get the following message in the GNU GRUB Version 1.98-1ubuntu7 window page.
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Aug 11, 2010
I am trying to install ubuntu 10.04 on windows7.windows 7 was already installed.I ollowed these steps to install ubuntu 10.04.1)First i made some freespace in hard disk to install ubuntu using windows7 default options(By shrinking).2)I used USB drive to install ubuntu.I made it bootable using unetbootin.3)I followed normal steps install(language,area,keyboard,using manual partition i installed ubuntu in free space,etc).4)I got boot menu when it restarted.PROBLEM isAs long i use only ubuntu (boot into ubuntu --shutdown--boot into ubuntu --shutdown) it works well.
If once i boot into windows 7 and restart the system i am loosing boot menu options.The following error i am getting"no module name found Aborted.Press any key to exit".If i press any key,I guess its trying boot using internet and lastly it says Operating system not found and hangs.
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Dec 1, 2009
I installed fedora 12 as second os along with ulimtate vista on 64 bit machine.
I was able finish the install and boot to fedora first time. but after updating the software , i am unable to boot into fedora but am able to boot in to vista.
I am using a HP Pavilion HDX9000 notebook series. it has 2 100gb hdd. vista is on c and fedora is on d. boot info was written to MBR on C drive.
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Jan 28, 2010
Having a major issue with my laptop. I am unable to boot into my Vista installation.I am currently posting this through my Fedora 11 installation which I had already. If anyone is interested, the BSOD error is:
0x0000007B (0x80399BB0, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
As far as I know, a '7B' BSOD is usually a hard disk error but I am 100% sure the HDD is fine as I can read and write from both Fedora and Knoppix without issue. Steps taken so far: Obviously, I have tried the usual steps of trying to start windows in safe mode, last good config, and all of the F8 options. When they failed, I used fedora to check for some solutions online (Mostly useless answers from MS) and I found one successful case when a person flashed his BIOS back to an earlier time. Unfortunately, I cant get the BIOS update I got from the Dell website to boot from a USB drive (Says invalid boot disc - the BIOS on it is in the .exe format which I can't use in linux) and I do not have a floppy drive on the laptop.
So, I put in my Dell drivers and utilities CD hoping that it would give me some option to update (Or roll back) the BIOS but there was no such option. However, it did give me a load of diagnostic options including repair options by symptom so went with the "Unable to boot from BIOS". Unfortunately, that didnt help me at all. So, I got my Vista installation disc (OEM supplied) and managed to get to the repair menu (Which I had among my F8 options anyway) but this also has the option to reinstall. Unfortunately, it states that "Upgrade is unavailable" and that a clean install is the only thing I can select (At the expense of my files and settings).
As for the repair options, the automatic recovery doesn't seem to find any errors, asks to reset and see if all is well (It isn't). For some reason, system restore doesn't detect any restore points. There are no windows memory errors detected and I have no backups. So, i'm left with a command prompt that, by default, is asking for a file in this folder: X:/WINDOWS/System32/ I have no idea where it is getting the X: drive from - I have C and D drives for windows only. As per another online guide, I tried:
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Dec 2, 2009
I am unable to change the installation location for the boot loader when installing Fedora 12 in the graphical installation mode. The 'Change device' button does nothing when I click on it during installation. I'd like to install the boot loader on my /boot partition. Is there some kind of bug that is preventing me from doing this?I am trying to install from the Fedora 12 386 DVD.
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Feb 17, 2010
I have just completed a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 and i am unable to boot from the HDD. when i restart my pc its stays on a black screen with the words grub_. I am able to boot into the OS by booting up to the live CD then choosing to boot from hard drive...I am also able to run the live CD. I have tried reinstalling this a few tiems...and it is only Ubuntu and not duel booting
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Jul 31, 2010
I downloaded the Ubuntu .iso and burnt it on to a CD. It boots fine on all systems apart from the one I am trying to install it on. This laptop doesn't have a floppy disc drive or the option to boot from a USB pen drive. I've taken the Hard disk out of it and used a USB drive caddy to connect it as a USB drive on a system running XP. How do I go about Installing Ubuntu onto the this USB drive so I can put it back in the laptop as an internal HDD. I've tried unetbootin to install the iso to the USB HDD but when I put it in the laptop as internal drive it doesn't boot.
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Oct 3, 2010
I had Windows XP installed it. I created a USB bootable memory stick for the latest version of the netbook version of Ubuntu, everything installed correctly, but when I turn on my netbook to the boot screen and select Windows XP it just goes to a blank screen with a line, and it does nothing. I installed Windows XP via a USB memory stick as well.
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Oct 7, 2010
I have just downloaded Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop/Netbook Remix Release Candidate and made a live usb with Pendrivelinux. Then I boot it in my Acer Aspire One A110 (8gb SSD model) and I get this screen:
SYSLINUX 3.86 2010-04-01 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al
Nothing more. Should I just wait until 10.10.10 for the finished 10.10? Or is there any way fixing this?
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Nov 21, 2010
I have tried so many things to get Ubuntu to start up it's not even funny. First off, I somehow managed to install two (2) video card drivers. One is fglrx (which may or may not be the ati catalyst driver) and an open-source edgers driver. After I rebooted from the fglrx install, my box would boot normally, but "No Signal" shows up when the purple splash screen should. I have it set to auto-login, but I never hear the login sound (drums, etc) from my speakers. The first thing I did was go into recovery mode and typed the following:
Code: sudo apt-get purge fglrx It removed fglrx without any problems. I booted from the live cd (which is 9.10) and edited xorg.conf to the settings from a previous video card (nVidia mx2 200/400). Then I put that video card in and switched from the onboard to the one I had just put in. Upon boot, I found that the purple splash screen just hangs (all 5 dots are red) and sits there. Seeing that it wouldn't boot, I turned it off via the power button. I went back onto the live cd and tried to remove the splash image via
Code: sudo nano /boot/grub/grub.conf I removed "quiet" when it appeared before "splash" (about 3 or 4 times). Now on boot, it shows a bunch of code THEN goes to the purple screen, where it hangs for at least five (5) minutes. I have yet to see it boot completely. I have tried refreshing the swap partition using instructions from here: [URL]
At the moment, I have been waiting for a good ten minutes and nothing has changed on the splash screen. Just to make things clear, fail-safe graphics mode does nothing to help the situation. This started as another problem I had with a video card. You can see it here: [URL]
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Nov 24, 2010
I'm trying to resurrect an old Compaq Evo 400C which currently runs Win98. I've created a CD from the ISO download and as far as I can tell, it has burned correctly. The machine boots off the CD, I select language and tell it to run off the CD. The Ubuntu screen with the four blinking dots appears and after about 30 secs of CD action. it comes to a grinding halt with the messages shown in attachment 1591. If, when booting, I tell it to install Ubuntu, much the same happens but with message shown in attachment 1597.
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Feb 20, 2011
I tried to install Ubuntu 10.10, it did not boot from the Live CD. Then I used the option "acpi=off". It worked and I installed the operating system in the computer (an ASUS A6000KM).Now, Ubuntu is not booting from the hard drive. Maybe it is the "acpi=off" issue again?What could I try to have Ubuntu working?
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Mar 15, 2011
My netbook doesn't have a CD drive, so I followed the instructions on the site to boot from a USB. Problem is, my emachines netbook running Windows Vista starter edition neither recognizes it during boot sequence, not does it seem to allow me to manually select a device to boot from?
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Aug 9, 2011
I am currently using ubuntu 10.10. I downloaded ubuntu 11.10 and created bootable usb drive.But now it giving error "BOOT ERROR".The same error occured when I tried to install 11.04..Also I am using windows 7 dual boot with ubuntu 10.10
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Jan 9, 2010
I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 and I've been trying to boot into the live mode. I can get into the main 'Try Ubuntu without any changes' menu, but selecting that option causes the CD tray to spin up, followed by the head audibly flailing about for a minute or two causing the laptop to noticeably vibrate, followed by nothing. It doesn't boot or give any errors, it just stops. I can read the discs just fine in Windows.
So far I've tested shipit CDs of 9.10, 9.04 and 8.10. All cause the above problem. 8.04 works perfectly.
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Feb 4, 2010
today when i updated my ubuntu 9.10 it was about 44mb update and update manager was not able to download 13mb of files i clicked continue anyway. after that i shut down my pc and when i restarted it my old black and ordinary GRUB was gone and there was one with Debian symbol and blue background and everything and when i selected any OS ( i have 3 os 1 on my 80GB hard disk which is ubuntu and other 2 are debian and windows XP which are on 20GB hard disk) and it said
invalid character '+' file not found.
so i am now running on live cd.
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Mar 9, 2010
Just did an update to 9.1 & now am unable to boot to ubuntu, windows7 still boots ok. Didnt pay much attention to the update but did notice there were a lot of cups files. Booting to ubuntu get something about using a tab & then getting a list of commands one can do. Tried boot got 'no kernel' tried exit & got a pc reboot which let me back to the tab msg.
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Apr 5, 2010
I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 fom a Live CD. My system is a Dell Optiplex 745 that originally had Windows XP installed. Ubuntu is the only OS. Windows XP was removed.
The sytem appears to be running normaly.
When I shutdown (not restart) and then power cycle the computer, I see the Dell splash screen then I get the message: "Errorauto-sensing secondary master hard disk drive. Strike F! key to continue, F2 to run the setup." F1 repeats the message. F2 enters the BIOS setup but does not lead to a fix.
If I place the Live CD in the tray and boot from that, I get to the Ubunt install directory.
If I click "Check disc for defects", then run the check. (I can even interupt the check without completing by hitting ESC), then the system reboots.
I see the Dell Splashscreen.
I see the Ubuntu Live CD menu
I choose "Boot from first hard disk"
Then Ubuntu loads perfectly. I enter my username's passord.
The system runs fine until the next time I shutdown.
How do I get the system to boot directly without needing the LiveCD?
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Apr 7, 2010
I've just installed Ubuntu 9.10 64 bits on my new HP Pavilion dv6, but it seems to boot almost randomly. I think it might be an issue related to the ATI graphics card, but I don't know how to solve it.
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May 31, 2010
Upgrade from Karmic - was using EasyBCD in Vista. Tried upgrading to Grub2, reinstalling Grub - but can not boot to either. Here is my Results.txt file from [URL]
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
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Jun 24, 2010
I'm running ubuntu for the first time. I have it install in Windows xp and boot it up after restarting the com. But I'm unable to boot up ubuntu. I can however go into the recovery failsafe mode. How should I debug the errors?
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Jul 7, 2010
I am unable to boot 9.10 or 10.04 Live CDs.9.04 can boot.When attempting to boot the LiveCD/USB (I have tried both), if I attempt the basic install/start/check CD, I get a blank screen.If I use the option selection to set nomode(something) command (I will verify later, posting from work) with verbose and quiet disabled, I can get further, but can still not boot.Any ideas as to how to get a boot of of the LiveCD?
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Oct 10, 2010
I had upgraded Ubuntu 10.04 (which had worked fine) to 10.10 and now if I try to boot normally, I see the "Ubuntu 10.10" text and startup meter... thing for only about a second, then it becomes a pure purple screen and all disk activity stops. I can still boot through Recovery mode with a failsafe X session and Windows (my other OS) can still boot. Along with that my desktop wallpaper is completely white. My PC is an Acer Aspire 4530-6823 with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 QL-62 dual-core processor clocked at 2GHz, a NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G and has a dual-boot between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 set up
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Dec 1, 2010
installed ubuntu on preinstalled windows7 hp notebookpc windows7 not booted. so i just use windows recovery cd and use some bootrec fixmbr commands 4 now i am unable to use both.
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Dec 5, 2010
I have Ubuntu Mavrick installed on windows vista using wubi. it has been running smoothly since RC, when i installed it. now, after I updated using Update Manager last night I was asked to reboot. Upon rebooting i was not able to use ubuntu. the Ubuntu option is there on the windows boot menu but after i select it gruub does not appear. instead it reboots again. is there any way to fix this problem so i can use ubuntu again? if not how can i recover my ubuntu files and folders? Please help because i dont really want to reinstall after all the tweaking and stuff.
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Dec 6, 2010
I was playing an online game and my netbook, previously running XP, somehow got a virus. The next morning when I turned on my netbook, the screen showed the normal Toshiba BIOS screen, and then went black, only showing a blinking white cursor in the top left corner of the screen.
Right now I'm on my netbook running on a thumb with 10.10 on it. When I try to install 10.10, after rebooting (and setting the BIOS settings back to the hard drive instead of the thumb), the screen goes black like before. If I boot from the thumb drive though and instead of installing, I select the "try ubuntu" option, I'm able to run my netbook as I am now. In the top left corner I have the "install ubuntu-netbook 10.10" option available.
I ran the boot info script and here's what I've got:
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Syslinux is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks on the same drive in
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Dec 18, 2010
I was using Windows XP before. I installed Ubuntu some weeks back and removed Windows completely. Now I want to completely remove Ubuntu and install Windows XP back. But the Windows XP bootable CD won't boot. I DON'T get a screen saying, "Press any key to boot from CD.. I've changed my boot sequence under BIOS settings to CD first and then HDD. Still every time I restart with the CD, it loads Ubuntu.
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