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Ricky-Ray
January 23rd, 2010, 08:30 PM
New to Ubuntu, I installed 9.10 onto a Dell Latitude D610 laptop. I partioned the entire hard drive for ubuntu and it installed perfectly fine as far as I can tell. Once the install was finished it said to eject the disc and reboot. Once I did that Ubuntu won't start. I get an error message that say's

error: no such device: cc019bc9-b8d1-472e-9368-bd3c2530b2fc

I even tried booting it in the recovery mode and I get the same error message. I've never seen this problem before. I used the same CD and was able to successfully install it onto a Dell Latitude D600 and I was playing with that computer for about a week before I decided to install Ubuntu onto the D610.

I know the D610 laptop works perfectly fine because it was running Window's XP Pro on it perfectly fine and the hard drive is perfectly fine too.

Am I doing something wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

tachuela
January 23rd, 2010, 09:42 PM
What you get is an UUID. Boot your Live CD and edit /etc/fstab

Ricky-Ray
January 25th, 2010, 09:56 AM
Not sure I understand. I'm VERY new to using Ubuntu or even any Linux. Thanks.

tachuela
January 25th, 2010, 01:34 PM
Take a look at this:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bootinfoscript/index.php?title=Boot_Problems:search

Ricky-Ray
January 28th, 2010, 09:16 AM
Ok. I figured out that there's a line in the startup that I need to delete. I followed the instructions on that link and it tells me to hit Ctrl X once I've deleted that line to boot. It does boot but the next time I start the computer up again or restart I run into the same problem.

Does hitting Ctrl X just boot the machine or is it suppose to save the edited commands and then boot or am I suppose to type in a different command to save it first then hit Ctrl X to boot?