[Boot-Repair] Graphical tool to repair the PC boot in one click

[parovelb]

@=oldfred
I am trying to get some linux distro work with my s205 lenovo without any results.
The funny thing is that if I try to install the 10.04 version like I did the first time, I can not get it to work.
With the 12.04 I have tryed so far every possible config:

• msdos partition / gpt partition
  efi, root, home
  efi, boot, root, home
  efi, bios, root, home

And my last report is http://paste.ubuntu.com/939482/.

[parovelb]

I am trying with the 10.04 configuration:

• msdos partition table
• ext4 /boot, swap, ext4 /, ext4 /home

And my last report is http://paste.ubuntu.com/939595/. Still no boot system...

[oldfred]

I am not a fan of separate /boot unless you have an old system or server and even then you may not need a separate /boot. More for full encryption and some RAID or LVM formats.

But your configuration looks like it should work. Grub in MBR looks to /boot partition, /boot has boot files & grub.cfg. And / has fstab. Did you manually edit fstab as it has /dev not UUIDs?

With a UEFI capable system I would install gpt with 12.04 and efi partition (but not /boot). But Ubuntu's UEFI was not there for 10.04.
I used gpt and BIOS with 10.04, but did have a few issues, so for most BIOS & MBR with 10.04 would be easier.

Are you perhaps booting past grub as with one system grub will not present a menu unless you hold shift down from BIOS until menu appears. And that was also a bug in efi boot as shift did not work (not sure if fixed in 12.04 or not).

If you are past grub2's loading, then it can be video issues or another boot parameter. Hold shift down and see if you get a grub menu.

How to set NOMODESET and other kernel boot options in grub2
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

[parovelb]

nothing works... i am sad... lenovo s205 is not for linux...

[oldfred]

Have you seen this thread?

How to install Ubuntu 11.10 on a Lenovo (U)EFI system (tested on S205, B570)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1867367

[parovelb]

Have you seen this thread?

How to install Ubuntu 11.10 on a Lenovo (U)EFI system (tested on S205, B570)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1867367

@oldfred

You are of great help, thank you.
I have read the thread and I tried to install like the first time I put ubuntu on it with no luck. LEnovo ideapad s205 is just not for linux at this time for me. perhaps later

[Hylas de Niall]

@ Yannbuntu: I really want to say 'thank you' for this disc.

It's a great tool, and it' came to my resue this last week a couple of times when i was messing around with partitions and distros.

So, 'Thank you!'

[mörgæs]

... with no luck...

What exactly was the problem - which step in the guide didn't work?

[graeleight]

Hi,

I'm trying to install boot-repair to repair my Grub2 configuration but I'm having a problem. I ran the following commands.

> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

The first 2 commands run without a hitch. On the last one, however, I get the following error.

> E: Unable to locate package boot-repair

I re-ran the first 2 commands to make sure there wasn't a typo but the results were the same.

Any help would be appreciated. My work around (Supergrub boot cd) is slow and annoying.

[YannBuntu]

Hello

> E: Unable to locate package boot-repair

This means you don't have access to the PPA, or you are using an obsolete version of Ubuntu.
Which version of Ubuntu CD do you use ? Boot-Repair is available only for supported version of Ubuntu (currently 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04). You can also find live-CDs with pre-installed Boot-Repair : Ubuntu Secured Remix, Boot-Repair-Disk...