Booting problem after installation

[R. Scott Belford]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:32 AM, d.davolio at mastertraining.it <
d.davolio at mastertraining.it> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> I'm planning to use a nice server to implement an Edubuntu 12.04LTS School
> lab.
> I installed from USB on a dual processor server with a Raid 10 storage.
> Since the storage is like 4 terabyte and Edubuntu see only one large disk
> /dev/sda, I let the installer do the automatic partitioning and
> installation. After the installation the server booted correctly, then I
> installed the upgrades (Update Manager).
> After that, the server doesn't boot anymore and stops at the "grub>"
> prompt.
> I'm still able to boot giving at the grub> prompt the linux and initrd
> right commands but even after boot, an update-grub and reboot, the server
> stops at grub>.
> Here some detail: the installer used the GPT table and I have 3
> partitions, /dev/sda1 (bios_grub), /dev/sda2 (root filesystem) and swap.
>
> Is there any known problem with this configuration in Edubuntu as far as
> you know?
> Thanks for the help!
>

I suspect that the USB device was sda during install and made your raid
partition sdb. Are you specifying the device at the grub prompt? When you
look at how grub.cfg is assembled, are you using uuid or /dev/ names?


> Davo


--scott
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