I just bought a new Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA disk drive. I plugged it in and the system wont boot. I get the BusyBox and it says "gave up waiting for root device..." "...alert /dev/sdc1 does not exist." When I unplug the new disk drive, it boots up fine. Any explanations as why it won't boot when I plug it in?
View 6 RepliesI have just spent dome time using gparted to sort out my partitions. I have a vista partition, a fedora one and a big chunk of unallocated space I wish to use as my data drive.
I want to move my ~ folder to the new partition and have windows/vista access the folder and write to the Documents, Downloads folders etc.
What is the best format to use?
Also I plan to start backing up my partitions to a server, for instance using g4l to save a linux image (maby a windose one too). Is there any benifit in keeping all the hidden files (ones starting with period '.') i.e moving the whole ~ folder or would I be best off leaving the ~ dir and moving the folders I know i use such as ~/Downloads, ~/Documents etc?
And how should i preform the move of all these files? 'mv'? do i need to add any special options?
i have ubuntu 10.10 installed on a 40gb hard drive and have setup arch linux on a seperate 160gb drive and am at the Choose bootloader screen of Arch Linux. My question is do i use arch linux to reinstall GRUB or do I choose none and configure GRUB to see both? if its the later can you tell how. Oh and Ubuntu is on sda and Arch is on sdb
View 6 Replies View Relatedokay so i installed Ubuntu using wubi on my Windows 7 laptop
i installed Ubuntu on D: drive of my laptop now when i run Ubuntu, it shows only C: drive and not the D: drive on which i have installed it
I'm trying to install Ubuntu on old desktops without proper optical drives (they half work, its hit and miss) and the BIOS does not allow booting from the USB. Can I yank the HDD out, install Ubuntu (with bootloader) on it using it as an external drive on another computer and then plug it back in?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am a beginner in ubuntu and wanted to try this OS. I have been using a USB as a live CD but its not a persistent drive and any changes (in terms of drivers and such) are lost on reboot. Is it possible to have the OS installed in a USB drive instead of the hard disk? If yes I would like some directions as to how this could be done or maybe a guide for it if there is one around. I am using a Ubuntu 10.10 USB live CD currently and my Laptop has Windows Vista as OS.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I boot into Ubuntu, I can see my Windows partition, but I can't see everything else that is on the second partition (where Ubuntu is installed), all I see is the Ubuntu root. Can anyone shed some light on how I can view the rest of my files? Ubuntu is installed on D: drive and windows 7 is installed on c:
View 3 Replies View RelatedNow I Can't boot anything without the flash drive. I want to get windows to boot without the flash drive.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have another question. When again restart the computer, I lost everything I had installed before. I am sure there is option somewhere to be turned on. I do not know where it is? Is there anybody can tell me where it is? I have installed UBUNTU on the external hard drive.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my hard drive. The results are worse I keep getting segmentation fault errors, black screens, lock ups, etc. This time I can't get it as stable as on Wubi. It can't stay stable more than 3-4 minutes - then the interface blinks and goes to black screen or shows weird colored strips/squares, locks up or shows tons of errors in the terminal. I did the kernel recovery mode partition check, no errors were found. I installed 9.04 on my harddrive, everything works fine, I log in and it stays great for about 1 or 2 minutes, then it freezes.
It shows the terminal with 'segmentation fault' errors, or goes to black screen and locks up. Alt+SysRQ+B is the only solution and sometimes it doesn't work either. I got Ubuntu 9.04 running through Wubi before and it ran perfectly stable occasionally on few boots. But I can't get it like that on my hard drive installation It just keeps crashing. I did a long memtest (10 tests passed), ubuntu file disk check went fine, my current operating system Windows 7 runs great and another Live CD Linux based system like Knoppix runs perfectly stable. Should it be a driver issue?
I am installing Ubuntu 10.04 server on a box with no optical drive, using a USB pen drive created using Ubuntu's Startup Disk Creator. Installation works just fine. However, instead of installing the MBR/grub2 on the hard drive it is installing it on the usb pen drive - i.e., I can't boot without the pen drive being the bootable device. I tried 'grub-install -root-directory=/boot /dev/sdb', but that didn't work.
I then tried 'apt-get purge grub-common' and then 'apt-get install grub-common'. There is a known bug where it tells you that there is no bootloader installed and do you want to continue without one Y/N - N just sends you straight back to the same dialog instead of installing. I'm not interested in recovering as it's a brand new install - easier just to redo it correctly from the start. So the question is this: how can I install from a USB pen drive and have the bootloader install properly?
I have installed ubuntu 10.10 inside windows using wubi installer on drive "D".Now inside ubuntu I can excess contents of all other drives except drive "D". Why it is so? Is there an way to access the data on drive "D" within ubuntu?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI downloaded Ubuntu 10.10.
I extracted the iso file.
2] I made a bootable cd out of the extracted data.
3] Now the CD does not boot
I have windows xp installed on C drive and wanted to install it on D.
I have windows in c: and now i have newly installed Ubuntu in c: through Wubi Now I see only my d: in ubuntu, How to access c: ? Can someone help me with this ? I am pasting the o/p of mount command.
/dev/loop0 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
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got my wifi up and running after my upgrade to karmic (wired connection and wicd install), but now when i try to load up anything from synaptic or add/remove programs its prompting me for the installation disc, the problem being i installed karmic through a flash drive.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI just finished installing lucid lynx netbook to my jump drive (full install) to save room on my hard drive. It's working fine except the bootloader was installed to the jump drive as well, meaning I can't boot my computer without the jump drive. Is there any way to correct it so that the computer boot from the hard drive while keeping my install on the jump drive?
View 2 Replies View Relatedinstalled Ubuntu 9.10 in an internal SATA drive and used it for quite a while, but yesterday my laptop's graphics card decided to die, and it looks like it will be a full month until I get replacement m/b. Therefore, I bought an external USB SATA Hub for my laptop's drive, but I can't seem to be able to boot ubuntu from this drive. I'm trying to boot with this external usb hub attached to an old P4 machine with USB booting enabled.I get till the grub screen, but as soon as the message "Grub loading" appears, I get a message saying:error: no such partitionand I get a prompt as follows:grub-rescue>I guess grub is trying to boot to a different device name... It's weird, I thought Ubuntu should boot irregardless of which interface I use, be it SATA or USB.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have just built 2 Ubuntu Desktop machines with a 2TB drive in each.
The machines are to sit on a Windows network one as media storage the other to as backup for the first.
I have shared a folder on each machine and all the shares can be accessed from the other Ubuntu machine and from the windows machines.
I have installed another 2TB hard drive in each machine and formatted as ext4 file system.
I then created a folder on each machines new hard drive and shared as usual. The shared folders can be seen on the network but cannot be accessed by network machines.
The error is "Unable to Mount location" "Failed to mount Windows Share"
I have a system with two hard drives: an old one with XP and Ubuntu on it, and a new one on which I have done a fresh install of XP. The BIOS is set to boot off the new drive. I have now installed Ubuntu Studio 10.04(off an alternate install disc, not a live CD)onto a partition on the new drive. The installation went fine, but it appears to have written the GRUB bootloader to the old disc. The result is that when I boot up, the system boots straight into XP off the new drive, without ever seeing GRUB. I could reset the boot order in the BIOS each time I boot according to which OS I want, but that is cumbersome; also I would like to be able to remove the old drive at some point.
What is the easiest way for me to re-install GRUB to the new disc ?
I have a ubuntu 10.10 wubi installation. It is installed to drive g:. While using ubuntu it is not showing me option to mount to this drive. It is showing all other drives.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen i boot to my ubuntu installed in my usb flash drive it works (home computer) but in school it wont? in school i already boot from the usb in bios but it promts the message "boot error". what should i do.. ?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI installed a new hard drive to my system. I use a program called R-Drive image to copy all my os to my new drive. It done a pretty good job too, its an exact copy. I deleted the old one. But obviously now I cant boot. I had a look at the menu.lst file i dont know what to change it to. heres my drive setup,
C: - Windows Vista - Ubuntu
D: - Documents - Swap File
E: - Games
Is there any software for Ubuntu that can bring the files all back?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have already installed window 7 on my pc.. Then i install ubuntu 10.04 inside window and choose another drive (20Gb) for ubuntu installation...During installation by default ubuntu installation size was fixed that was 3Gb... i installed it as it is... After installation when i update ubuntu then 3Gb was filled up and there was a Message about"Disk space".. I have to install other packages but error is still there showing that u have not enough space .... But the size of ubuntu drive is
20GB...
I have 2 ubuntu's: 1 on my ineternal hard drive, 1 on my external
When I startup without my ext drive =>GRUB error 21.
And when I plug it in I can choose: the standard ubuntu kernel is the one on my external, and the original one is listed under other...
I'd like to be able to startup without external hard drive and make the ubuntu on my internal drve the standard.
I added a new drive to an existing system and installed F15 on the new drive, and all was well. I copied what I needed from the old drive and removed it from the system. Now it won't boot. It drops to a shell with the message.
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ACPI: Expecting a [Reference] package element, found type 0
I don't know if that's relevant, but dmesg reveals that it can't find the root device:
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dracut: inactive '/dev/vg_server100/lv_swap' [9.81 GiB] inherit
dracut: inactive '/dev/vg_server100/lv_home' [1.76 TiB] inherit
dracut: inactive '/dev/vg_server100/lv_root' [50.00 GiB] inherit
dracut: inactive '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [1.13 TiB] inherit
dracut: inactive '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01' [1.94 GiB] inherit
dracut: Volume group "vg_server1" not found
dracut: Skipping volume group vg_server1
dracut: Warning: No root device "block:/dev/mapper/vg_server100-lv_root" found
dracut: Warning: LVM vg_server1/lv_swap not found
Server1 was the volume group on the drive that was removed. I thought I had removed that volume group in the disk manager. Server100 is the new volume group. In the shell, I can mount the root partition and look at its contents. It all seems to be there, but the /boot directory is empty. How I can get this system to boot up normally?
I discovered this entry in my /etc/fstab file:
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UUID=... /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
I guess that's the part that's really missing? How I would go about recovering it? The boot partition is in tact, and so is the root partition. So I'm still wondering why dracut thinks there is no root device.
Recently, I decided to wipe my system, put in two 250GB hard drives and rebuild my home file and print server. One of the hard drives is a SATA drive, and the other is not. In any event, they are identified as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in Gparted. So far so good.
Working on (reading from/writing to) the first hard drive (where the OS is installed) is no problem. However, I have had difficulty trying to get my system to recognize my second hard drive and then allow me (nate) to read and write to said second drive. I followed these directions from the ubuntu community web page during installation:
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and setup my second hard drive with an ext3 file system. The drive is /dev/sdb. The PARTITION is /dev/sdb1. The MOUNT POINT is /media/TheBase250.
The problem(s) begin at this point. I cannot:
1. Unmount the volume at my will-error says that only root can unmount
2. I am not sure if the command sudo chown -R nate:nate /media/TheBase250 allowed me to take full ownership of said drive. It appears as if nothing changes when I run this command in terminal (even when I am root) Moreover, I cannot give myself permission to read and write files to the drive.
3. However, when I open up nautilus, browse to "TheBase250", right-click in the corresponding "explorer" or "finder" window and look at the properties for the drive, it says that "nate" is the owner (under the permissions tab), but again, I cannot give myself FILE read/write capabilities, nonetheless anyone else. When I try, all that happens is the corresponding box goes back to displaying "---"
4. Interestingly, if I skip nautilus and double-click on the drive from my desktop, again, logged in as nate (only user account created) and then proceed to right-click on the window that opens up, click properties, half the time it says that I cannot make changes to the permissions because I am not "nate." Well, last time I checked, I am nate, and this is, albeit delinquent, my computer.
5. Another piece of information that may be helpful is that if I simply right-click on TheBase250 drive icon on my desktop itself, navigate to the permissions tab, the dialogue box says that "The permissions of "TheBase250" could not be determined"
Some additional information that may be helpful is the output from my fstab file. So, for your benefit, here is the output (the stars are not part of the file, but only to help improve readability):
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
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I was trying to install a new hard drive and in the process have managed to not only format my old hard drive but lost all my stuff as well. I am running a live CD but unable to mount the said hard drive. I Know its there.
fdisk tells me:
As you can see its still registering as /dev/sda, I am unable to mount this to run a undelete program on it.
a e2fsck tells me
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
I am trying to run a script which would execute once the system start's up. I placed my script in /etc/init.d and made it chmod +x my-script and placed my script path in /etc/rc.local . It works fine in installed environment and its not working in live cd and USB.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to install grub2 from a linux live cd when linux isn't installed on any of the partitions? I'm setting up a multiboot partition for someone and I don't want to install linux anywhere on the computer since hard drive space is running short.
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