Trusty LTS install does not boot

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm a little late to the game getting my 13.10 xubuntu system up to
> 12.04.1 Trusty, but I started today.  I have a complaint and a problem.
> They're not the same.
>
> The complaint is that the install process scared me, then turned out to be
> feckless -- I can't boot into the new system.  The install took a while to
> detect that I have multiple operating systems on this machine.  That's very
> true, but the scary part was that as soon as I told it I wanted to install
> alongside them rather than over them, it immediately began copying files.
> Where, I had to ask myself.  Eeeek!  I was expecting to be able to direct
> the install to my brand new SSD disk (/dev/sdd) that I bought for the
> purpose.
>
> I let the install proceed, figuring that the damage, if any, was already
> done.  It turns out that the install took the rest of my /dev/sda drive,
> all 1.36TiB of it.  This seems extreme.  But the final bit of complaining
> is that despite reporting that it was doing grub-update and such, when I
> went to reboot, I had the same GRUB menu as before -- no signs of 12.04 --
> and the default took me right into my usual 13.10 system.  At least I still
> have a usable system.
>
> End of complaining.
>
> Now the problem:
>
> I resized the OS down to 32.00 GiB, and copied it over to /dev/sdd1 using
> gparted.  I can mount it and browse throught it.  But I'm not clear on how
> to get it to boot.
>
> I think I've seen how-tos about that here an there.  I'll be googling for
> such help.  I hope it works better than the procedure built into the
> installer.  But I couldn't hold myself back from the above complaint.
>
> That problem turned out to be easy.  I think with my MSI mainboard the
boot drive is not necessarily /dev/sda.  Then if GRUB is doing grub-install
to /dev/sda it would be ineffective.  In any event, the fix was to do
   update-grub
to refresh the GRUB  on the 13.10 system i was running, and then
   grub-install
to _all_ of my drives, so it does not matter which one the mainboard boots.

Now, all the versions of all the OS-en show up, and I can boot 12.04.1 or
any other I like.

>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman
>
> programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software.
>  Please consider the environment before printing this email.
>



-- 
Kevin O'Gorman

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Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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