danben
March 30th, 2010, 02:18 AM
I have an HP Envy with two software-RAIDed disks on which I wanted to install Ubuntu. I had heard from other Envy owners that Lucid provided the best hardware support; however, the version of GParted on the Lucid Alpha 3 ISO wasn't using dmraid to see the partitions. My solution was to partition the drive with a Karmic Live CD, then install Lucid 3.
I had some problems with Lucid, so I decided to go back and try Karmic with an updated kernel, so I wiped the partition containing Lucid from Windows and installed Karmic.
Now when I boot, GRUB gives the following error message:
"error: no such device: <long string>"
and I find myself in grub-rescue (I have no idea whether this is GRUB or GRUB 2). A google search about the problem turned up a few suggestions, none of which I have been able to use as the only command I can get it to recognize is ls. For what it's worth, ls shows me the following:
(hd0) (hd0,4) (hd0,3) (hd0,2) (hd0,1)
which I imagine correspond to the drive and its four partitions.
I can boot from the LiveCD (on a USB stick, since this machine has no optical drive), so I tried to wipe the partition and reinstall Karmic, but now the install fails when it tries to install GRUB. /boot/grub contains one file, grubenv, which has no discernible useful data inside of it.
After a couple of hours of searching around aimlessly, I've decided I'm far over my head here. Can anyone help?
I had some problems with Lucid, so I decided to go back and try Karmic with an updated kernel, so I wiped the partition containing Lucid from Windows and installed Karmic.
Now when I boot, GRUB gives the following error message:
"error: no such device: <long string>"
and I find myself in grub-rescue (I have no idea whether this is GRUB or GRUB 2). A google search about the problem turned up a few suggestions, none of which I have been able to use as the only command I can get it to recognize is ls. For what it's worth, ls shows me the following:
(hd0) (hd0,4) (hd0,3) (hd0,2) (hd0,1)
which I imagine correspond to the drive and its four partitions.
I can boot from the LiveCD (on a USB stick, since this machine has no optical drive), so I tried to wipe the partition and reinstall Karmic, but now the install fails when it tries to install GRUB. /boot/grub contains one file, grubenv, which has no discernible useful data inside of it.
After a couple of hours of searching around aimlessly, I've decided I'm far over my head here. Can anyone help?