| qwebirc256310 | anyone around to help w/ tech support after my trip to beta land? | 11:33 |
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| head_victim | qwebirc256310: I can try :) | 11:33 |
| head_victim | What is broken? | 11:34 |
| qwebirc256310 | wonderful basically I upgaded from 10.10 to natty and tried to set stuff up so that my root partition would install all the new goodness and my /home etc would remain untouched all seemed to work well except when I went to boot I find myself at the grub_rescue prompt with a "error: file not found" I suspect it relates to what is mentioned at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 so I am currently trying to follow the dire | 11:35 |
| qwebirc256310 | using "METHOD 2". My question is, is the command supplied going to be correct for me or do I need to tell GRUB about /home being on a seperate partition | 11:36 |
| qwebirc256310 | the command being "sudo grub-setup -d /media/XXXX/boot/grub /dev/sda" | 11:36 |
| head_victim | I'm not 100% but I would have thought grub would have only cared about / | 11:37 |
| sagaci | don't you have to do crazy chroot | 11:37 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: I was just told in #ubuntu that using grub-setup directly isn't recommended by the grub devs and I should follow these instructions http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide | 11:38 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: Odd given that the Ubuntu docs recommend it then. | 11:39 |
| head_victim | Mount your Ubuntu partition from Places menu. If you have multiple Ubuntu partitions (e.g., /boot, /home, /), you need to mount the /boot partition. | 11:39 |
| head_victim | I took that from your first link, seems to imply you only need to edit the /boot partition so it's the only one requiring modifying? | 11:40 |
| head_victim | sagaci: sound correct? | 11:40 |
| sagaci | i can't be consulted... always do clean install | 11:41 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: I've only setup a seperate partition for /home so I think /boot is on root itself | 11:41 |
| head_victim | qwebirc256310: that would be correct if you haven't specified a location | 11:41 |
| qwebirc256310 | sagaci: this was -at least- an attempted clean install :P | 11:41 |
| head_victim | qwebirc256310: how set up is it? Retry the install? | 11:41 |
| sagaci | qwebirc256310: I always just backup and then reinstall over my ext4 / partition, no separate other fluff | 11:42 |
| head_victim | sagaci: I like a separate /home, I just specify this in the install | 11:42 |
| qwebirc256310 | sagaci: that's what I told it to do | 11:42 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: well it downloaded updates etc and went through 100% given I did tell it to overwrite the root not sure how grub is stuffing up | 11:43 |
| sagaci | qwebirc256310: sounds lke you didn't install grub properly | 11:43 |
| head_victim | qwebirc256310: it's beta, anything's possible :/ | 11:43 |
| sagaci | likely to install to /dev/sda | 11:43 |
| head_victim | qwebirc256310: first question, you weren't using wubi were you? | 11:44 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: definately not :) | 11:44 |
| qwebirc256310 | sagaci: in my case it's sdb | 11:44 |
| head_victim | qwebirc256310: just checking, apparently that's broken in the beta | 11:44 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: no worries, saw that warning on the iso download page | 11:45 |
| head_victim | qwebirc256310: nothing obvious on http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/beta#Known%20issues either | 11:46 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: I think it's just freaking out b/c somehow my old GRUB stuff stayed behind | 11:47 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: Just not sure whether a reinstall would rectify or not and it was a time consumer for me | 11:47 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: In terms of fixing it up using that guide I just dunno which way is the best :) | 11:47 |
| head_victim | qwebirc256310: if the #ubuntu people said use a particular method that's the first one I'd try | 11:48 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: I do note that somehow a home folder is present on the drive I designated as root. I am not sure if that's normal | 11:48 |
| head_victim | qwebirc256310: how did you observe that? I can check mine if you like | 11:49 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: just running of the livecd atm and mounted the drive | 11:50 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: * off | 11:50 |
| head_victim | Hmm gparted isn't showing any /home on my / | 11:50 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: thanks for checking that. I reckon I just made a stuff up somehow in telling grub where to place itself though.. I am not sure how :P | 11:52 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: I reckon I might just do a reinstall and see how it goes. seems "cleaner" | 11:52 |
| head_victim | It's sounding likely. You might be able to fix it but I'm not sure where your /home has gone | 11:52 |
| qwebirc256310 | head_victim: the drive that should be my /home when everything works remains intact so that's good news | 11:53 |
| qwebirc256310 | I'll do a reinstall and see how things go and report back later. Thanks guys | 11:53 |
| head_victim | qwebirc256310: ahh then it should be easy to reinstall then | 11:53 |
| head_victim | qwebirc256310: let us know how it goes :) | 11:53 |
| somethinginteres | head_victim and sagaci: reinstall worked. GNOME desided to crash but a reboot worked (tis beta after all) other than that everything's golden. Thanks for the help :) | 12:19 |
| head_victim | somethinginteres: glad we could help, so I assume you were qwebir.... ? | 12:19 |
| * joey168 is away: going out to catch some fresh air | 12:44 | |
| somethinginteres | head_victim: yeah :) | 12:52 |
| head_victim | blahdeblah: I meant to ask before if you ever found out how many computers needed to have Ubuntu installed and set up on about the flood stuff. I have to head out for a while but feel free to ping me in here with the response or just shoot me an email. | 13:33 |
| blahdeblah | head_victim: No mate - still waiting for info. | 13:34 |
| head_victim | Ah ok cool. Just curious as to how successful their parts drive went. | 13:34 |
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| head_victim | Not that anyone is awake, but YAY, I'm now approved as a Ubuntu Member. | 23:01 |
| bradm | head_victim: yay you! | 23:59 |
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