[11:33] <qwebirc256310> anyone around to help w/ tech support after my trip to beta land? 
[11:33] <head_victim> qwebirc256310: I can try :)
[11:34] <head_victim> What is broken?
[11:35] <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
[11:36] <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" 
[11:37] <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
[11:38] <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
[11:39] <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.
[11:40] <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?
[11:41] <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?
[11:42] <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 
[11:43] <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
[11:44] <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
[11:45] <qwebirc256310> head_victim: no worries, saw that warning on  the iso download page
[11:46] <head_victim> qwebirc256310: nothing obvious on http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/beta#Known%20issues either
[11:47] <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 :) 
[11:48] <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
[11:49] <head_victim> qwebirc256310: how did you observe that? I can check mine if you like
[11:50] <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 /
[11:52] <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
[11:53] <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 :)
[12:19] <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.... ?
[12:44]  * joey168 is away: going out to catch some fresh air
[12:52] <somethinginteres> head_victim: yeah :)
[13:33] <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. 
[13:34] <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.
[23:01] <head_victim> Not that anyone is awake, but YAY, I'm now approved as a Ubuntu Member.
[23:59] <bradm> head_victim: yay you!