Re: Upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 - Upgrade did not complete
I had a similar experience:
When I came back to it in the morning, I found my desktop with all the icons intact but no prompt, no sign that an upgrade had taken place, no prompts. Strange but I figured it would automatically prompt me for any incomplete updates upon the next boot.
Ah, no such luck: When I rebooted, I got the Grub menu. But instead of the nice white on blue, squint-mode font, I got the old-looking white on black font. (I don't recall how I got that into the nice display mode.) That was just the harbinger of things to come. And come they did: Whether I chose Windows or Linux, it responded with "No such partition" (Or was it "Partition not found"? I forget.)
SIGHhhh.. Again? This is a variation of what has happened to me nearly EVERY time I upgrade. Until now I didn't even get the Grub menu! (Oh yes, 11.04->11.10 ran without a hitch.) Here we go again!
So, after using the Gparted-Live CD to insure that my partitions were all still in place, I went back to the Windows-7 installation CD and ran "bootrec /fixmbr" in a command window.
My PC now boots straight into Windows, sans Grub. When I have time I will use the Ubuntu-secured live CD to repair the grub. I have the printed doc of how to do this, though I wish I had printed it full size. (My eyes aren't as sharp since I was poisoned and stabbed in 1917. )
-- Rasputin Paskudniak II (In pursuit of undomesticated, semi-aquatic avians)
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