Laptop install fail - Dell Inspiron 6000 (need GRUB-fu?)
Alan McKay
alan.mckay at gmail.com
Sat Dec 5 20:13:20 UTC 2009
Hey folks,
Well, things did not go so well for my wife's laptop.
I booted the 9.10 CD and chose the install option without trying the
Live CD first. It seemed to install fine but when I removed the CD
and rebooted, it just comes up and says there is and unknown device
and some big long HEX number.
So I boot the Live CD and get it to mount the HD, and sure enough it
mounts at /media/same-big-hex-number
Hmmm. So I look on the disk at /etc/fstab and it is also using that
number, so i changed it over to the raw device /dev/sda1 for / and
/dev/sda5 for swap.
Now, one odd thing I did notice was that "sfdisk -l" lists the
partitions - and there were 2 used, then 2 blank, then sda5 which was
swap. I thought that odd. But even odder was that when I went into
fdisk and did "p" it showed no partitions! WTF?
So I googled "ubuntu dell inspiron 6000" and not much came up.
No help here either : http://www.linux-laptop.net/dell.html
Oh, I also at boot time went into the GRUB edit mode and that number
was in there too - so clearly this is my remaining issue - but GRUB
seems to have advanced a lot since I was last really into it about 4
or 5 years ago. I also went into /etc/grub.d from the live CD and saw
a whole bunch of greek in there instead of the old grub file I used to
be familiar with.
So - what is the magic incantation I need here? I'm assuming some
GRUB-fu would fix me up?
thanks,
-Alan
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