Ubuntu Hardy Heron server install: grub not updated

[Karl Larsen]

Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote:
> * Karl Larsen [30/06/08 15:54]:
>   
>> Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote:
>>     
>>> * Karl Larsen [30/06/08 14:17]:
>>>       
>>>> Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> But grub did not get updated, and after rebooting the system I still
>>>>> only see Fedora Core 5 and Windows XP as the only options to boot
>>>>> into. The Ubuntu partition is there, as I can see after booting into
>>>>> Fedora, but my grup.conf is still the original one. 
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>     Well the Ubuntu loader had a real problem with your fedora! I think 
>> there must be a problem with /dev/sdc5 and this is why it failed. By the 
>> way sdc means the third hard drive on your computer. Do you have 3 hard 
>> drives?
>>
>>     
>
> I'm starting to sort of understand what happened. I have three disks,
> one internal SATA disk and 2 external USB disks. Somehow Ubuntu got
> installed in one of my external disks, despite the fact that I started
> the installation from scratch using a CD with the "server"
> installation. This happened may be because this disk is formatted as
> ext3? The other one is formatted as vfat32. 
>
> /dev/sda (this is the  SATA disk)
> Partition 1:  /dev/sda1, 0,08GB, DELL Utility, vfat16
> Partition 2:  /dev/sda2, 111,33GB, HPFS/NTFS
> Partition 3:  /dev/sda3, 9,77GB, Hidden W95 FAT32, vfat32
> Partition 4:  /dev/sda4, 111,66GB, W95 Ext'D (LBA)
> Partition 5:  /dev/sda5, 109,67GB, Linux / Root Filesystem
> Partition 6:  /dev/sda6, 1,99GB, Linux swap
>
> It seems Fedora is Partition 5 using swap in Particion 6. Partition 1
> is for the DELL utilities and 2, 3 and 4 are somehow related with
> Windows XP ( I can reformat them since I don't boot into them, they
> just came when they give me the computer). 
>
> The first external USB disk, formatted as ext3, shows now the
> following partitions after the installation of ubuntu:
>
> /dev/sdb
> Partition 1: /dev/sdb1, Linux, /mnt/Backup, ext3
> Partition 2: /dev/sdb2, extended, unmounted
> Partition 5: /dev/sdb5, 99,36GB, Linux, /media/disk, ext3
> Partition 6: /dev/sdb6, 4,25GB, Linux Swap
>
> Curiosly no Partition 3 and 4 here, I can see the ubuntu installation
> in /media/disk from Fedora. 
>
> Lastly the other external USB disk is not affected:
>
> /dev/sdc
> Partition 1: /dev/sdc1, 111,79GB, W95 FAT32 (LBA), /media/LACIE,
> vfat32
>
> This one gets only mounted if I log in (I set up a persistent mount
> point for the previous one). 
>
> So my questions now are:
>
> 1) How can I wipe out Particion 5 and 6 in /dev/sdb and resize a
> single large partition as I had?
>
> 2) Can I have Fedora, Windows XP and UBUNTU all at the same time in
> /dev/sda? As I said I don't mind wiping WXP out. 
>
> 3) What went wrong with the UBUNTU installer, why did it end up
> installing ubuntu in a USB disk?
>
> --
> Walter Garcia-Fontes               
> Barcelona
>
>   
Now it comes out at last. You have one fixed HD and 2 USB HD. No wonder 
Ubuntu loader got confused :-)

    I have no experience loading to a USB HD. But that must be the 
problem.  If you have the space on the  one Fixed hard drive try to load 
Ubuntu there. You have a Swap partition there already. While loading 
Ubuntu unplug BOTH USB HD's

Karl


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