Hi everyone,
I have Ubuntu 11.10 set up on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite A105-S2194) and wanted to move it over to my desktop (homebuilt with an AMD Athalon 1800 XP+ processor). I used Clonezilla to copy the disc over to a hard drive that's the exact same size as the one in my laptop. Then I installed it in the desktop, and ran the grub2 updater in fedora. Everything seems fine (in that it "found" and created entries for Ubuntu 11.10), but when I try to boot up Ubuntu, I get "Error: File not found. Error: You must load a kernel first." I can boot fedora without problems.
I tried both with copying the bootloader and everything over from the laptop to the hard drive, and stripping out all of the bootloader information (which only removed the grub2 directory, but left the grub directory in the /boot directory).
I'm at a loss as to what to do here. Should I reinstall Ubuntu? Can I repair it (reinstall without losing my data/programs/settings), and if so, how? Can I do a backup from the laptop and then do a restore on the desktop (pointing to the second hard drive)?
Right now, Fedora is on sda and Ubuntu is on sdb. In the laptop, Ubuntu is on sda, and there's no sdb. Also on the laptop, the hard drive is a SATA drive, and in the desktop, the hard drive is a PATA drive (not sure if that has an effect or not).
Thanks, and have a great day
Patrick.
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