Trying to Load Ubuntu 11.04 onto HP Laptop. Failed at reboot

[Peter Fitzpatrick]

Hi Tom

There is a swap partition I believe it is Hd0,5. I ran Ubuntu from the CD
(and USB) install disk and looked at the drive with gpart.

The current version loaded is the 10.04 version and this one comes up with:

Error: Out of disk
Grub rescue> ls
(hd0) (hd0,1)
Grub rescue> set
Prefix=(hd0,1)/boot/grub
Root=hd0,1
Grub rescue> insmod (hd0,1)/boot/grub/normal.mod
Error: out of disk
Grub rescue>



Does 'out of disk' mean out of disk space?

Thanks 
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Tom H
Sent: Wednesday, 24 August 2011 8:20 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Trying to Load Ubuntu 11.04 onto HP Laptop. Failed at reboot

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Peter Fitzpatrick
<Peter at fitzpatrick.net.au> wrote:
>
> Have tried the commands you suggested. Failed at the insmod command as
> follows;
>
> List starts with machine just rebooted: Note that the machine currently
has
> the 10.04 LTS version installed (or partly so)
>
> Error: out of disk
> Grub rescue> set prefix=(hd0,1)/boot/grub
> Grub rescue> insmod (hd0,1)/boot/grub/normal.mod
> Error: out of disk
> Grub rescue> normal
> Unknown command 'normal'
> Grub rescue> cat (hd0,1)/etc/lsb-release
> Unknown command 'cat'
> Grub rescue> search -f /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> Unknown command 'search'
> Grub rescue> search -f vmlinuz
> Unknown command 'search'
> Grub rescue> ls
> (hd0) (hd0,1)
> Grub rescue> set
> Prefix=(hd0,1)/boot/grub
> Root=hd0,1
> Grub rescue>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Goh Lip
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:03 AM
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Trying to Load Ubuntu 11.04 onto HP Laptop. Failed at reboot
>
> On 08/23/2011 07:25 PM, Peter Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
>> Installation runs through normally and concludes apparently OK. The HDD
>> has been reformatted and using the default whole disk installation.
>>
>> When we restart we only get an error from GRUB as shown below.
>>
>> error: out of disk
>> grub rescue>
>> grub rescue> ls
>> (hd0) (hd0,msdos1)

Given this output and the above "set" resulting in "hd0,1" (and not
"hd0,1), try (I'm assuming that you don't have a separate "/boot"
since (hd0) has just one partition; isn't there a swap partition?):

grub rescue> set prefix=(hd0,msdos1)/boot/grub
grub rescue> set root=(hd0,msdos1)
grub rescue> insmod (hd0,msdos1)/boot/grub/normal.mod
grub rescue> normal
grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
grub> initrd /boot/initrd.img
grub> boot

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