I messed with Plymouth and now I'm paying for it...

[lifelike27]

There ya go:

Model: ATA ST9500420AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 41.1MB 41.1MB primary fat16 diag
2 41.1MB 18.9GB 18.9GB primary ntfs boot
3 18.9GB 126GB 107GB primary ext4
4 126GB 500GB 374GB primary ntfs


Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0
has been opened read-only.
Error: /dev/sr0: unrecognised disk label

[lifelike27]

And this:

Linux ubuntu 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

[garvinrick4]

And this:

Linux ubuntu 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

32 bit Live Cd and you are running 64 bit on your machine.
You need a 64 bit live Cd. That should clear up the inability to chroot into your install.

[lifelike27]

Damn, why would Ubuntu send me a 32-bit version...

Thanks a lot. I'm going to try this in a while when I get back. I hope it works!

[garvinrick4]

Damn, why would Ubuntu send me a 32-bit version...

Thanks a lot. I'm going to try this in a while when I get back. I hope it works!

where is the 64 bit cd you installed in your machine?

[ezsit]

Damn, why would Ubuntu send me a 32-bit version...

Because that is the only version they print to CD. If you want 64bit version you need to download it.

[lifelike27]

where is the 64 bit cd you installed in your machine?

I have the 64-bit somewhere. Will have to find it soon. I live off Ubuntu, but it's sad that I know so little about how it works. =\

When I have free time I shall explore into the depths of the Linux world!

Again, will test with the 64-bit soon. Today or tomorrow.

[lifelike27]

So I tried all those commands and it didn't work. I had another problem at un-mounting all the files. It said the drive was in use, so I just restarted.

It also removed my Win7 boot menu and that scared me because that was my backup option. But I got the Ubuntu safe mode from the installed Ubuntu to recompile grub. I forgot to mention that it works. At least I think it does.

Let me restart and check out all the options it has.

[lifelike27]

I get a menu showing Resume, Clean, dpkg, failsafex, grub, netroot, root. I feel like this was information that would have saved us a lot of time...

[garvinrick4]

I am glad you have a working system one way or the other and
enjoy your Ubuntu.