ed-koala
November 11th, 2009, 05:15 AM
After at least 8 attempts to install 9.10, I'm reverting to 9.04 again. Grub2 is a real problem, and hopefully a solution will be found in the future for all the issues I had. A brief outline (so perhaps someone can tell me some way to fix at least one issue and result in a boot-up.
1. Upgrade from 9.04
Booting after upgrade shows Grub loading ... then disk not found (briefly), then the ubuntu logo for 10 sec, then drops to Busybody shell. No error messages, just a prompt.
2. Clean install, let ubuntu 9.10 detect HD
Letting ubuntu recognize my raid setup, and use the entire partition, ext4 filesystem results in a Grub error 2 upon trying to boot.
3. Clean install, manual partitioning, ext3 filesystem
Same as upgrade basically, tho booting to live CD and choosing boot from 1st hard drive (which is where everything is installed) shows the grub list, but boot does the same thing as the upgrade install, I drop to busybody prompt after logo appears.
4. Clean install, alternate install CD
Same as above.
Obviously, grub2 is the culprit in my installs. How can I put 9.10 on my system, with ext3 and the OLD grub? That should be what the upgrade did, but obviously something is going wrong. I'm never even getting to ubuntu, just busybody (whatever that is).
I do hope the developers are working on the boot up issues. I'm not alone by a long shot if I'm reading the forums right, but there doesn't seem to be any answer, yet.
A comprehensive guide to boot issues would be most helpful.
1. Upgrade from 9.04
Booting after upgrade shows Grub loading ... then disk not found (briefly), then the ubuntu logo for 10 sec, then drops to Busybody shell. No error messages, just a prompt.
2. Clean install, let ubuntu 9.10 detect HD
Letting ubuntu recognize my raid setup, and use the entire partition, ext4 filesystem results in a Grub error 2 upon trying to boot.
3. Clean install, manual partitioning, ext3 filesystem
Same as upgrade basically, tho booting to live CD and choosing boot from 1st hard drive (which is where everything is installed) shows the grub list, but boot does the same thing as the upgrade install, I drop to busybody prompt after logo appears.
4. Clean install, alternate install CD
Same as above.
Obviously, grub2 is the culprit in my installs. How can I put 9.10 on my system, with ext3 and the OLD grub? That should be what the upgrade did, but obviously something is going wrong. I'm never even getting to ubuntu, just busybody (whatever that is).
I do hope the developers are working on the boot up issues. I'm not alone by a long shot if I'm reading the forums right, but there doesn't seem to be any answer, yet.
A comprehensive guide to boot issues would be most helpful.