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qwebirc256310anyone around to help w/ tech support after my trip to beta land? 11:33
head_victimqwebirc256310: I can try :)11:33
head_victimWhat is broken?11:34
qwebirc256310wonderful 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 dire11:35
qwebirc256310using "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
qwebirc256310the command being "sudo grub-setup -d /media/XXXX/boot/grub /dev/sda" 11:36
head_victimI'm not 100% but I would have thought grub would have only cared about /11:37
sagacidon't you have to do crazy chroot11:37
qwebirc256310head_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/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide11:38
qwebirc256310head_victim: Odd given that the Ubuntu docs recommend it then. 11:39
head_victimMount 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_victimI 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_victimsagaci: sound correct?11:40
sagacii can't be consulted... always do clean install11:41
qwebirc256310head_victim: I've only setup a seperate partition for /home so I think /boot is on root itself11:41
head_victimqwebirc256310: that would be correct if you haven't specified a location11:41
qwebirc256310sagaci: this was -at least- an attempted clean install :P 11:41
head_victimqwebirc256310: how set up is it? Retry the install?11:41
sagaciqwebirc256310: I always just backup and then reinstall over my ext4 / partition, no separate other fluff11:42
head_victimsagaci: I like a separate /home, I just specify this in the install11:42
qwebirc256310sagaci: that's what I told it to do 11:42
qwebirc256310head_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
sagaciqwebirc256310: sounds lke you didn't install grub properly11:43
head_victimqwebirc256310: it's beta, anything's possible :/11:43
sagacilikely to install to /dev/sda11:43
head_victimqwebirc256310: first question, you weren't using wubi were you?11:44
qwebirc256310head_victim: definately not :)11:44
qwebirc256310sagaci: in my case it's sdb11:44
head_victimqwebirc256310: just checking, apparently that's broken in the beta11:44
qwebirc256310head_victim: no worries, saw that warning on  the iso download page11:45
head_victimqwebirc256310: nothing obvious on http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/beta#Known%20issues either11:46
qwebirc256310head_victim: I think it's just freaking out b/c somehow my old GRUB stuff stayed behind11:47
qwebirc256310head_victim: Just not sure whether a reinstall would rectify or not and it was a time consumer for me11:47
qwebirc256310head_victim: In terms of fixing it up using that guide I just dunno which way is the best :) 11:47
head_victimqwebirc256310: if the #ubuntu people said use a particular method that's the first one I'd try11:48
qwebirc256310head_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 normal11:48
head_victimqwebirc256310: how did you observe that? I can check mine if you like11:49
qwebirc256310head_victim: just running of the livecd atm and mounted the drive11:50
qwebirc256310head_victim: * off11:50
head_victimHmm gparted isn't showing any /home on my /11:50
qwebirc256310head_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
qwebirc256310head_victim: I reckon I might just do a reinstall and see how it goes. seems "cleaner" 11:52
head_victimIt's sounding likely. You might be able to fix it but I'm not sure where your /home has gone11:52
qwebirc256310head_victim: the drive that should be my /home when everything works remains intact so that's good news 11:53
qwebirc256310I'll do a reinstall and see how things go and report back later. Thanks guys 11:53
head_victimqwebirc256310: ahh then it should be easy to reinstall then11:53
head_victimqwebirc256310: let us know how it goes :)11:53
somethingintereshead_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_victimsomethinginteres: glad we could help, so I assume you were qwebir.... ?12:19
* joey168 is away: going out to catch some fresh air12:44
somethingintereshead_victim: yeah :)12:52
head_victimblahdeblah: 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
blahdeblahhead_victim: No mate - still waiting for info.13:34
head_victimAh ok cool. Just curious as to how successful their parts drive went.13:34
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head_victimNot that anyone is awake, but YAY, I'm now approved as a Ubuntu Member.23:01
bradmhead_victim: yay you!23:59

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