laptop problems

[Tom H]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.

It's the fourth button "Something else"; or second round button.

To the OP: You're only seeing hd0 at the grub rescue command line. Is that
the usb stick or the hd?

You can install Ubuntu using debootstrap. It's packaged by Fedora in EPEL.

(I've been using Fedora for much longer than I've been using Ubuntu and yet
I've always found that Ubiquity's partitioning step was clearer than
Anaconda's, even more so since Anaconda's redesign.)
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