laptop problems

[Colin Law]

On 31 July 2014 10:49, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> From memory the partiton options are the bottom one of 3 on the graphical
> install screen, called 'do something else'. From the next screen you can
> edit the partitions as you wish.

Also, if you want to adjust partitions before going into the install
procedure, if you boot from the live CD then you can run gparted to do
that.  At least I *think* gparted is included in the live image.

Colin

>
> Regards
>
> Pete S
>
> On Jul 31, 2014 9:31 AM, "arelem3" <arelem3 at bigpond.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have  Dell 1520 laptop which had Fedora20  and ubuntu 14.04.
>> The cdrom is inoperable so any installation has to be usb which to now was
>> no problem.
>> I have 14.04LTS live on the usb and have used it to install ubuntu
>> previously on this and other machines.
>> Both Fedora and Ubuntu started reporting low disk space for root /.
>>
>> I deleted an empty partition on the laptop using gparted from Fedora and
>> now the computer will not boot.
>>
>> Ubuntu 14.04 will not provide the manual hard drive formatting options and
>> partition creation system I am accustomed to with Fedora and CentOS.
>> I tried to do a fresh install of 14.04 from the usb but get an error:
>> Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root on unknown-block(0,0)
>>  If I boot without the usb stick live 14.04 I get error: no such
>> partition. Entering rescue mode.
>>
>> <grub rescue> If I do ls I get (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos3)
>> (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos1)
>> ls (hd0,msdos5) does nothing.
>>  I want to install 14.04LTS again but cannot get to manual partitioning.
>>
>> Can someone please help
>> Thanks in advance
>> Roger
>>
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