L14UX_1NS1D3
May 26th, 2009, 12:54 AM
Hello everyone.
I'm actually writing this from a ubuntu livecd due to the fact that while attempting to clone my laptops partitions onto a new, larger 160GB sata laptop HD I screwed with the grub setup and now when ever I boot into either drives I always get "grub: error 15", meaning that grub was not able to find the kernal/files needed to boot.
I started this thing a few days since I got a usb to hard drive adapter cable to hookup a 160gb 3.5 sata and copy files over from the sata hd sitting my laptop.
I considered two ways I could go about this.
1. do a byte for byte copy of the entire 80gb hd onto the larger drive
2. use clonezilla to copy the drive.
I went with the latter. I first popped in a older version of clonezilla but it didn't play nice with the ext4 partitions on the drive so I went and downloaded latest version then I was able to copy the partition over.
I have a really strange partition setup on my drive. My machine came preinstalled with vista and a recovery partition for the vista install. I moved over the recover dir and installed ubuntu a swap space and a fat partition to share files for either OS I'm booted into.
I didn't have much of a hitch with coping the partitions over until clonezilla tried to install grub.
Here's where my nightmare started. I did this a few times, I copied over the ext4 partition with ubuntu a few time. Everytime clonezilla finished copying the partition over it would attempt to install grub and fail.
I read tutorial about installing a grub to the MBR here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351)
after executing all the commands I booted back into the with with the copied partitions and it would say "grub 1.5" and then just hang at "error 15".
I'm going to use "super grub recovery disk" and see what happens.
I feel pretty stupid after this escapade. And I still don't have any clear answers. Your help is greatly needed/appreciated. ](*,)
I'm actually writing this from a ubuntu livecd due to the fact that while attempting to clone my laptops partitions onto a new, larger 160GB sata laptop HD I screwed with the grub setup and now when ever I boot into either drives I always get "grub: error 15", meaning that grub was not able to find the kernal/files needed to boot.
I started this thing a few days since I got a usb to hard drive adapter cable to hookup a 160gb 3.5 sata and copy files over from the sata hd sitting my laptop.
I considered two ways I could go about this.
1. do a byte for byte copy of the entire 80gb hd onto the larger drive
2. use clonezilla to copy the drive.
I went with the latter. I first popped in a older version of clonezilla but it didn't play nice with the ext4 partitions on the drive so I went and downloaded latest version then I was able to copy the partition over.
I have a really strange partition setup on my drive. My machine came preinstalled with vista and a recovery partition for the vista install. I moved over the recover dir and installed ubuntu a swap space and a fat partition to share files for either OS I'm booted into.
I didn't have much of a hitch with coping the partitions over until clonezilla tried to install grub.
Here's where my nightmare started. I did this a few times, I copied over the ext4 partition with ubuntu a few time. Everytime clonezilla finished copying the partition over it would attempt to install grub and fail.
I read tutorial about installing a grub to the MBR here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351)
after executing all the commands I booted back into the with with the copied partitions and it would say "grub 1.5" and then just hang at "error 15".
I'm going to use "super grub recovery disk" and see what happens.
I feel pretty stupid after this escapade. And I still don't have any clear answers. Your help is greatly needed/appreciated. ](*,)