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Corneliuss
February 18th, 2010, 08:49 AM
I have 2 Hard drive originally
my first harddrive was a 500 GB had 3 operating systems on it
Vista (This i installed in my 2nd partition at the very start)
Windows 7 ( This i installed in my 1st partition once it came out)
Ubuntu Linux (This I always had in my 3 partition as a removable windows program)

My 2nd harddrive
1.5 TB (I had recently got and decided i'd move start fresh on this harddrive and use the other as my backup and have ubuntu as my main OS)

So, I delete my vista and formatted the partition
after that I restarted my computer and had a boot error and not having any of my windows disks detecting my harddrives so i could fix the damn thing i gave up and grabbed my 1.5 TB and put Ubuntu Linux on it to partition it in half because i wanted to run both windows 7 off one harddrive and linux ubuntu // other linuxes off the other.

When i try to boot with just my Windows hard drive it says
"No Operating System Found"

When i try to boot with just my Ubuntu hard drive it says
Error: out of disk
Failed to boot default entries
Press any key to continue... (Just keeps repeating that)

Edit: I'm currently running it from the CD not the installation.
Desktop 64-Bit I believe (Maybe 32)

r_s
February 18th, 2010, 09:01 AM
check using testdisk , you can run it from a live cd

Corneliuss
February 18th, 2010, 09:09 AM
I'm currently on my system because of the live cd
I can't get it to work otherwise

r_s
February 18th, 2010, 09:12 AM
just install testdisk and you can check all your partitions and even recover them if you haven't written on them

presence1960
February 18th, 2010, 03:09 PM
Let's get a better look at your setup & boot process. Boot the Ubuntu Live CD/USB. Choose "try ubuntu without any changes", when the desktop loads come back here and do the following:

1. Download the boot info script. There is link in my signature.
2. Once downloaded move the boot info script to the desktop.
3. Open a terminal and run the command
sudo bash ~/Desktop/boot_info_script*.sh

This will create a RESULTS.txt file on the desktop. Paste the entire contents of that file back here. Once pasted highlight all text and click the # sign on the toolbar to place code tags around the text.

See here (http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/) for more info on the boot info script.

Above link is to meierfra's Sourceforge web page and all credit is his.

Corneliuss
February 18th, 2010, 06:35 PM
The only reason that i'm about to get on an OS is because it's running from "try ubuntu without any changes to your computer"

Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010

============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================

=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
partition #1 for /boot/grub.

sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 9.10
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img

sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sda5: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sda: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders, total 2930277168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf5013dcd

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sda1 * 63 2,894,431,049 2,894,430,987 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 2,894,431,050 2,930,272,064 35,841,015 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 2,894,431,113 2,930,272,064 35,840,952 82 Linux swap / Solaris


blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/sda1 5e5e64e6-b3e1-4b47-ad87-dd6f5ccacef1 ext4
/dev/sda5 9ad2fd9c-7ba9-48db-bf9e-4feaffd6fadf swap

============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================

Device Mount_Point Type Options

aufs / aufs (rw)
/dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 (rw)
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 /media/5e5e64e6-b3e1-4b47-ad87-dd6f5ccacef1 ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit)


=========================== sda1/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================

#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s /boot/grub/grubenv ]; then
have_grubenv=true
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 5e5e64e6-b3e1-4b47-ad87-dd6f5ccacef1
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
fi
fi
if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/white
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
set quiet=1
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 5e5e64e6-b3e1-4b47-ad87-dd6f5ccacef1
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=5e5e64e6-b3e1-4b47-ad87-dd6f5ccacef1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 5e5e64e6-b3e1-4b47-ad87-dd6f5ccacef1
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=5e5e64e6-b3e1-4b47-ad87-dd6f5ccacef1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
if [ ${timeout} != -1 ]; then
if keystatus; then
if keystatus --shift; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=0
fi
else
if sleep --interruptible 3 ; then
set timeout=0
fi
fi
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

=============================== sda1/etc/fstab: ===============================

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=5e5e64e6-b3e1-4b47-ad87-dd6f5ccacef1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=9ad2fd9c-7ba9-48db-bf9e-4feaffd6fadf none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

=================== sda1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================


107.5GB: boot/grub/core.img
107.5GB: boot/grub/grub.cfg
.2GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
.1GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
.2GB: initrd.img
.1GB: vmlinuz

presence1960
February 18th, 2010, 09:15 PM
where is the disk with windows on it? The 1.5 TB only has linux. I need you to run the script with the disk that has windows on it plugged in. How else are you going to boot windows?

Corneliuss
February 18th, 2010, 09:58 PM
Oh I got rid of the windows
I'm only running ubuntu and i get that error when i try too run it

I have a problem with my other harddrive that has windows 7 on it and it has to go back for warranty

I just want to be able to run Ubuntu 9.10 without that error that i'm getting

Edit:
Like right now i have to run it with the cd in it and no changes to the computer because it keeps giving me that error


When i try to boot with just my Ubuntu hard drive it says
Error: out of disk
Failed to boot default entries
Press any key to continue... (Just keeps repeating that)

That is what I meant to say.

oldfred
February 18th, 2010, 10:41 PM
Have you tried to boot using the liveCD but the selection that says use hard drive? (bypassing grub in the MBR which maybe all you have to reinstall).

Is there a problem with your windows drive or is the problem just that you cannot boot? When you deleted Vista you also deleted parts of the Win7 boot that was in the Vista partition. If you run the win7 repairs it should boot again.

Corneliuss
February 19th, 2010, 08:35 PM
Is there a problem with your windows drive or is the problem just that you cannot boot? When you deleted Vista you also deleted parts of the Win7 boot that was in the Vista partition. If you run the win7 repairs it should boot again.

Have you tried to boot using the liveCD but the selection that says use hard drive? (bypassing grub in the MBR which maybe all you have to reinstall).

Explain How lol
Sorry other then using Ubuntu for a couse last year I don't understand anything or remember anything accept the important terminal commands.
I understand boot using liveCD then the very last option i'm thinking is what your talking about where it says boot with harddrive. Done that thats the error I get from it that i reported.

Something is wrong with my Boot Sequence but how to fix...

oldfred
February 20th, 2010, 02:48 AM
First lets try reinstalling grub, follow the directions for 9.10 with grub2:

How to restore the Ubuntu/XP/Vista/7 bootloader (Updated for Ubuntu 9.10)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014708

kansasnoob
February 20th, 2010, 03:10 AM
I'd try this:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bootinfoscript/index.php?title=Boot_Problems:write

kansasnoob
February 20th, 2010, 03:24 AM
BTW if the Temporary Solution in that how-to gets you booted you could install the current Lucid packages of grub-pc and grub-common as they seem to have fixed that problem.

Once booted into your installed Karmic first run this command to see if you have 32bit or 64bit installed:


uname -m

(64 bit = x86_64, and 32 bit = i686)

Then just:


sudo apt-get remove grub-pc grub-common

Then download the proper versions of grub-common and grub-pc:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/grub-common

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/admin/grub-pc

Just save them to the Desktop (or Downloads folder, wherever you wish) then just double-click the package and gdebi will install it. (Note: grub-common must be installed first and grub-pc second)

Then just run:


sudo update-grub

And to be on the safe side:


sudo grub-install /dev/sda

If the temp solution doesn't get you booted we can still try that through a chroot using wget and dpkg but I'd need to see the output of:


uname -m

So I use the proper packages in the commands.

Corneliuss
February 20th, 2010, 09:42 PM
I sorta got it working can't get it to not fail boot.

If I were to torrent a new copy and (burn CD) install that would this problem be fixed?

Seeing how it seems you have packages out to fix this error.

I'm going to try these solutions i'll see if they work