kn100
April 7th, 2009, 11:48 AM
Hey, got a big problem with ubuntu at the moment.
When i switched from XP to ubuntu, i made two partitions, both NTFS. One was empty, and one contained over 80gb of stuff(i did this so i wouldnt lose my massive collection of music). When i installed ubuntu it installed to the first partition and converted it to EXT3. Great. Then when it booted, worked fine for a few days, but then I realised i still had two partitions, so i transfer all my files all over to the ext3 partition, and boot up in the partition editor live cd i got off the net. Yeah great, deleted the NTFS partition, and then resized the EXT3 partition to the full HDD and made sure i didnt touch the swap partition.
This has worked, as in live CD i see a 250gb partition, which is what i wanted. The problem is GRUB is refusing to load from the new partition for some reason. It just errors out. I don't know what to do. Any ideas?
FROM A LIVE CD how to i find out what my hdd is 'called' (like hd0,5) etc?
When i switched from XP to ubuntu, i made two partitions, both NTFS. One was empty, and one contained over 80gb of stuff(i did this so i wouldnt lose my massive collection of music). When i installed ubuntu it installed to the first partition and converted it to EXT3. Great. Then when it booted, worked fine for a few days, but then I realised i still had two partitions, so i transfer all my files all over to the ext3 partition, and boot up in the partition editor live cd i got off the net. Yeah great, deleted the NTFS partition, and then resized the EXT3 partition to the full HDD and made sure i didnt touch the swap partition.
This has worked, as in live CD i see a 250gb partition, which is what i wanted. The problem is GRUB is refusing to load from the new partition for some reason. It just errors out. I don't know what to do. Any ideas?
FROM A LIVE CD how to i find out what my hdd is 'called' (like hd0,5) etc?