12.04 updated to command line

[wildmanne39]

Hi, that is usually a video card driver issue the link I gave in my first post usually fixes that issue.
thanks

[hollywoodpete]

Hi, that is usually a video card driver issue the link I gave in my first post usually fixes that issue.
thanks

Disabling NOMODESET is now allowing a fresh re-installation. If it is ok I will continue to use this thread until I have it installed.

FWIW; It is a little surprising to me that this all started from a simple upgrade. I love Ubuntu and have it on 4-5 of the computers on my network including a server and have never had this many problems with one install

[Lisiano]

Upgrades can become really messy if you use PPAs, to avoid extra downtime and drama, I (and probably everyone else) recommend creating a separate /home and reinstalling Ubuntu when a new distribution upgrade comes out.

[wildmanne39]

+1 on having a separate /home and just doing a freash install it has become more important to do so since unity came out last year.

[hollywoodpete]

I will create a new home and fresh install from here on out. Is there a tutorial or guide to help with that? For a beginner it is too easy to click the box on update manager. There is no option for a fresh install

[Lisiano]

Quite easy, first off, do you want to keep your current partition and refurbish it as home (Might be risky)? Or do you wish to start clean and move only certain files off your home folder?

[hollywoodpete]

Quite easy, first off, do you want to keep your current partition and refurbish it as home (Might be risky)? Or do you wish to start clean and move only certain files off your home folder?

The latter option sounds better. This is mostly hypothetical because the next upgrade won't be for a while. I had only minor issues upgrading my other computers to 12.04 LTS and some installed seamlessly. This upgrade has been a nightmare and required a clean install. Fortunately it is on a box that doesn't have any real important files.

[hollywoodpete]

I may have been a little optimistic about my install. 2 hours later I have a desktop and spinning cd curser but I don't think the OS is installed. Any help? It looks like the OS is on the HD but for some bizzare reason it won't boot from the drive. Bios settings look ok.

[wildmanne39]

Hi, did you remove the cd from the drive?

In your bios is the HD set to boot first?

Describe what happens when you try to boot and what you see.
Thanks

[hollywoodpete]

CD is out. I'm actually updating from a USB. I started another thread in Installation but if I can still get help here I will. I found a thread with a similar proplem so I tried a fix. Hope it helps.

USB upgrade won't boot
I used the upgrade box in update manager to go from 11.10 to 12.04. I had too many problems so I tried to do a clean install from a USB drive. I can't get the computer to boot without the drive in place. I saw other people had similar problems but not close enough for me to figure out.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders, total 39102336 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002853d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 36483071 18240512 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 36485118 39100415 1307649 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 36485120 39100415 1307648 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 3879 MB, 3879731200 bytes
120 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders, total 7577600 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00085793

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 62 7573919 3786929 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda/
usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is /dev mounted?).
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$