[11:33] anyone around to help w/ tech support after my trip to beta land? [11:33] qwebirc256310: I can try :) [11:34] What is broken? [11:35] 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 [11:36] 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] the command being "sudo grub-setup -d /media/XXXX/boot/grub /dev/sda" [11:37] I'm not 100% but I would have thought grub would have only cared about / [11:37] don't you have to do crazy chroot [11:38] 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 [11:39] head_victim: Odd given that the Ubuntu docs recommend it then. [11:39] Mount your Ubuntu partition from Places menu. If you have multiple Ubuntu partitions (e.g., /boot, /home, /), you need to mount the /boot partition. [11:40] 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] sagaci: sound correct? [11:41] i can't be consulted... always do clean install [11:41] head_victim: I've only setup a seperate partition for /home so I think /boot is on root itself [11:41] qwebirc256310: that would be correct if you haven't specified a location [11:41] sagaci: this was -at least- an attempted clean install :P [11:41] qwebirc256310: how set up is it? Retry the install? [11:42] qwebirc256310: I always just backup and then reinstall over my ext4 / partition, no separate other fluff [11:42] sagaci: I like a separate /home, I just specify this in the install [11:42] sagaci: that's what I told it to do [11:43] 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] qwebirc256310: sounds lke you didn't install grub properly [11:43] qwebirc256310: it's beta, anything's possible :/ [11:43] likely to install to /dev/sda [11:44] qwebirc256310: first question, you weren't using wubi were you? [11:44] head_victim: definately not :) [11:44] sagaci: in my case it's sdb [11:44] qwebirc256310: just checking, apparently that's broken in the beta [11:45] head_victim: no worries, saw that warning on the iso download page [11:46] qwebirc256310: nothing obvious on http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/beta#Known%20issues either [11:47] head_victim: I think it's just freaking out b/c somehow my old GRUB stuff stayed behind [11:47] head_victim: Just not sure whether a reinstall would rectify or not and it was a time consumer for me [11:47] head_victim: In terms of fixing it up using that guide I just dunno which way is the best :) [11:48] qwebirc256310: if the #ubuntu people said use a particular method that's the first one I'd try [11:48] 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 [11:49] qwebirc256310: how did you observe that? I can check mine if you like [11:50] head_victim: just running of the livecd atm and mounted the drive [11:50] head_victim: * off [11:50] Hmm gparted isn't showing any /home on my / [11:52] 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] head_victim: I reckon I might just do a reinstall and see how it goes. seems "cleaner" [11:52] It's sounding likely. You might be able to fix it but I'm not sure where your /home has gone [11:53] head_victim: the drive that should be my /home when everything works remains intact so that's good news [11:53] I'll do a reinstall and see how things go and report back later. Thanks guys [11:53] qwebirc256310: ahh then it should be easy to reinstall then [11:53] qwebirc256310: let us know how it goes :) [12:19] 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] somethinginteres: glad we could help, so I assume you were qwebir.... ? [12:44] * joey168 is away: going out to catch some fresh air [12:52] head_victim: yeah :) [13:33] 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. [13:34] head_victim: No mate - still waiting for info. [13:34] Ah ok cool. Just curious as to how successful their parts drive went. === bwright is now known as bwright_afk === bwright_afk is now known as bwright_sleep [23:01] Not that anyone is awake, but YAY, I'm now approved as a Ubuntu Member. [23:59] head_victim: yay you!