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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have tried to load the Ubuntu 11.04 and 10.04 onto a HP laptop with a Celeron CPU c/w 2 GB of memory and a new clean 320GB hard drive. It is only a 32 bit machine so have used the 32 Bit programs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Machine is HP<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>CPU is Intel T2300 1667MHz<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cache 64/2048KB<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Memory 2048KB<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ROM 4/28/2006 BIOS F.06<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Installation runs through normally and concludes apparently OK. The HDD has been reformatted and using the default whole disk installation.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When we restart we only get an error from GRUB as shown below.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>error: out of disk<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>grub rescue><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Having read through some of the posts on the subject it appears that there may be some kind of issue with how the boot sector is loaded. Anyway I have tried a few different things to give as much information as I can. Note I am only new to Unix, although I did a bit of it post uni about 30 years ago.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here are some of the things I tried and the results.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>grub rescue> ls<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(hd0) (hd0,msdos1)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>grub rescue> ls /<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>./ ../ lost+found/ var/ etc/ media/ bin/ boot/ dev/ home/ lib/ mnt/ opt/ proc/ root/ sbin/ selinux/ srv/ sys/ tmp/ usr/ vmlinz initrd.img cdrom/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>grub rescue> cd /boot/grub<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>error: out of disk<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>grub rescue> set<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>prefix=(hd0,msdos1)/boot/grub<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>root=hd0,msdos1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>grub rescue><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Both version of ubuntu acted in almost the same way. The only difference was that the 10.04 version reported the drive details as (hd0,1) rather than (hd0,msdos1). I have tried loading froma CD for each and also a USB stick for each. In the case of the USB I used the program from the ubuntu site to generate the usb stick as bootable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In all cases ubuntu will run from the CD or USB stick and seems to be fully functional.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>There seems to be very limtied capacity at the Grub rescue prompt as very few commands do anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>One thing I ntoiced was that during the installation when the program asked for how the HDD partitions should be handled it seemed to indicate that the HDD was a SCSI drive. It is in fact a SATA drive. I did not think much of this but do not know if it is important or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Regards<br>Peter Fitzpatrick<br>Fitzpatrick & Associates<br>ABN 99 818 462 653</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>