Just Give Me the Beans!
So did I so I took this machine down and looked at GRUB a lot closer.Originally Posted by larrys4227
When I installed this machine, I thought the drive was scrubbed. I did not remember that I had installed an Unbuntu Server test a month earlier. DOH!
5 Cups of Ubuntu
DOH!
Just Give Me the Beans!
LOL - exactly, and now I do have a problem. Gluing the two back together!
5 Cups of Ubuntu
Sounds like its a pretty new install .... maybe start all over again?
Wipe the disk clean with GPartedLive and then make 3 primary partitions.
sda1 - /(root-ext4) 15G (for install of 12.04)
sda2 - swap 1-4G depending on your memory
sda3 - /home (ext4) Remaing HD space
Couple years ago I started a seperate /home ... wish I had done it way before that too.
Nowadays I have multiple distro logical partitions with one common /home and its awesome on many levels for testing and playing with all the great Linux Distros that come out.
Of course I have my main distro .. and thats parked on sda1.
Anyway, have fun!
Just Give Me the Beans!
I was able to marry the two partitions using GParted after booting to a Live-CD. Then I had to go through a boot-repair session to get grub pointing correctly again. Whoever wrote boot-repair was genius.
Never lost a byte of info. I love Ubuntu. It gives me such a sense of accomplishment.
Ubuntu addict and loving it
Glad you got it sorted out. I thought maybe you had a previous Ubuntu installation in which case fstab would have double entries.I was able to marry the two partitions using GParted after booting to a Live-CD. Then I had to go through a boot-repair session to get grub pointing correctly again. Whoever wrote boot-repair was genius.
Never lost a byte of info. I love Ubuntu. It gives me such a sense of accomplishment.
It retains the older ones as well as the new ones but, come to think of it I don't believe GParted would show that.
Sda1 being used in a prior install makes a lot of sense.
Happy Ubuntuing!
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