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

[Peter Fitzpatrick]

Goh Lip

Thanks for your help

Just a question: On the last setup I set the swap area to a primary
partition and it came up as being sda2. Is this the normal location or
should we use sda5 which I think is the first extended partition?

Thanks again.
Peter

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[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Goh Lip
Sent: Sunday, 28 August 2011 2:38 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Trying to Load Ubuntu 11.04 onto HP Laptop. Failed at reboot

On 28/08/11 11:31, Peter Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Hi. Unfortunately I have no better news to report.
>
> Have tried the suggestions from Goh Lip with the same response for each
try
> with the exception of the following after deleting partitions and manually
> setting I had Primary partition 1 as an ext4 disk with 300GB (sda1) and
> primary partition 2 as the Swap with 5GB (sda2).
> Reinstalling and rebooting gave:
>
> Error: out of disk
> Grub rescue>  ls
> (hd0) (hd0,msdos2) (hd0,msdos1)
> Grub rescue>  set
> Prefix=(hd0,msdos1)/boot/grub
> Root=hd0,msdos1
> Grub rescue>


Peter, sorry to say that I too have no better idea to proceed after 
you've done all this other that there could be a hardware issue on RAM 
or hard disk and in which case, I am not certain myself.

Hopefully, Tom H and others can suggest other possibilities.
Wish you luck and if you've found a way out, will appreciate you post 
back here.

Regards - Goh Lip


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