[ubuntu-za] Need some URGENT help please.

[Nic Roets]

Hello Johan and Ian,

I have 'official' CDs here in Pretoria, if it helps. Call me on
012-361-2884. I'll bring them to you and may be able to give a few pointers
while I'm there.

Regards,
Nic

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Dr. Johan P. Prinsloo <biocura at telkomsa.net
> wrote:

> Installing 10.10 is a real nightmare to such an extent that I feel
> leaving Linux and going back to Microsoft after all these years.
>
> Just bought a new PC and the installation is a disaster
>
> Try downloading the iso file again and writing a new disk, that helped
> in my case, but now that its installed there is no GUI and I do not know
> how to get into my PC. For the first time since 8.04 I built a dual
> bootable pc having windows 7, which ubuntu simply ignored and seems to
> have installed over it.
>
> I'll try once again doing another install from scratch hoping it will
> work, but sadly after 5 attempts and almost 24 hours later I doubt it
> will work.
>
> Try another iso and writing it on a new cd.
>
> Johan
>
> On 27/11/2010 14:42, Ian Whitfield wrote:
> > //Hi All
> >
> > I need some rather urgent help with a new installation of Kubuntu 10.10
> >
> > Background is that I have 3 HDD in my computer. A system drive, a /home
> > drive (both IDE) and I just re-plugged in a SATA drive that has some
> > backup data on it. To be safe I backed up ALL data etc in /home to a
> > brand new external USB SATA HDD before I started.
> >
> > I then re-booted the machine with the new 10.10 CD in the drive. When it
> > got to the 'where to install' part it only seemed to show ONE HDD!! (Why
> > is this?). As my Second Boot Device in the BIOS is set to be the "System
> > HDD", (First is the CD Drive), I selected 'Use all of drive' and
> continued.
> >
> > Part way through the installation I noticed that the External HDD light
> > was flashing so it seems as if the system has taken this to be the
> > primary drive and overwritten all my Backup Data!! (Again why??)
> >
> > After the installation it did a reboot but comes up with...
> >
> > error: no such device: (long number)
> > grub rescue>  _
> >
> > So I went back into the BIOS and set First Boot Device as the old System
> > Disk and switched off the External drive and restarted but I get the
> > same error!!
> >
> > Can I do anything through the 'grub rescue' prompt, or how can I get the
> > original system, which must still be on the System Disk, to start? That
> > way I can reclaim my data and try again.
> >
> > Thanks for ANY help with this. As I'm only getting feeds from the list
> > every second day or so could you CC me direct please on
> > whitfield at federalsaints.net, as this is rather urgent!!
> >
> > Thanks guys.
> > ////
> >
> >
>
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