[CoLoCo] 2 questions in 12 hours....

David Overcash funnylookinhat at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 15:39:15 UTC 2011


Andy,
Break the wife's computer???  What were you thinking?!  ;)  (been there,
done that...  so believe me when I'm pulling for you on this).

You should try to re-install GRUB2 to the MBR on your primary hard drive -
that should, in most cases, fix everything.  I have a feeling it mapped the
drives strangely, possibly because the one drive was uninitialized?  You can
find out how to do that here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows>If
that doesn't work report back and we'll dive a bit deeper.

This may sound (very) strange, but you could always try switching the flags
on your drives so that the Ubuntu drive is the primary, then repeat the
above steps.  You never know - some HDD controllers can act very strangely
these days.  :)

Cheers,
David

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:35 AM, <mkass at numericalgeo.com> wrote:

> Well, I am ashamed to ask 2 questions in 12 hours, but I have a continuing
> problem with getting my wife into Ubuntu.  I broke her machine.  Thanks to
> Nick Pas. by the way for successfully answering my last question.
>
> OK, her machine is running Vista 64.  I popped in a new 1TB hdd in there
> (uninitialized).  Ran the live CD for Kubuntu 10.04.  Everything was great,
> so I started the install.  Windows hdd--sda.  New one--sdb.  I had 3 install
> options--Install alongside windows (everything was on sda), install to a
> whole drive (picking sdb crashed the install, maybe because it wasn't
> initialized), and make your own partitions.  OK, option 3 here we go...
>
> I set up a ext4 partition mounting at /  and a swap partition (I also left
> a little space "free").  Everything looked good so I proceeded.  The last
> step had a little advanced button where it told me it was installing a
> bootloader on sda.  Great.  So I installed.  Everything proceeded apparently
> successfully.  On reboot, however, booting to sda produced a grub error:
> error: no such device: 1c236...etc.
> It enters grub rescue> which I have no idea how to use.  Forcing boot to
> sdb results in a locked up system.
>
> I re-ran the live CD and can view each hdd.  sda still has everything on
> it, and sdb apparently has a linux system on it.  What can I do to fix my
> grub (or whatever else is wrong)?
>
> Thanks so much guys...I owe you a beer when we go to Hansens.
>
> Andy
>
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