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bigsmitty64
April 1st, 2010, 09:28 PM
My bud has 9.10 installed and when lucid is released plans on going to that. Question is, (He has NOTHING on this 9.10 install worth saving)
is it advisable to upgrade ? or just do a full install of lucid. Please give the reasoning for your answer as I'm not sure how to explain it. I personally would just do a full install (he has no info to lose remember)

Boondoklife
April 1st, 2010, 09:35 PM
My bud has 9.10 installed and when lucid is released plans on going to that. Question is, (He has NOTHING on this 9.10 install worth saving)
is it advisable to upgrade ? or just do a full install of lucid. Please give the reasoning for your answer as I'm not sure how to explain it. I personally would just do a full install (he has no info to lose remember)

Well "IF" he has not made any changes to the OS configurations or hacked up anything then an upgrade is just fine. I have had great luck with upgrades and in general there are very few problems unless you have customized the install greatly or done different hacks.

bigsmitty64
April 1st, 2010, 09:46 PM
He actually hasn't touched the 9.10 install yet. It's just a few days old. He originally was going to test 10.04 but couldn't get passed the login screen. It was weird, it would go black, then we could here the "welcome" music but not see anything, so we gave up. Probably a graphics issue? Anyways he decided to wait til the official release.

The strange thing is, he has the nvidia 9500 gt and I have the 9400 gt and I'm happily testing 10.04 beta 1
Go figure. Thanks for your response.

bigsmitty64
April 2nd, 2010, 05:16 PM
Well he did the upgrade and it went bad, and I believe he had all other drives unplugged .

at reboot it goes to:




error: no such device: c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03
grub rescue>_

Boondoklife
April 2nd, 2010, 05:46 PM
Hey sorry your having an issue. Try booting from the cd and running this boot info script and post back the results.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/

bigsmitty64
April 2nd, 2010, 07:02 PM
I think I see the problem already, looks like grub is installed on both drives?


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.
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks on the same drive in
partition #1 for /boot/grub.
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc

sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs: /Boot/BCD

sdb1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu lucid (development
branch)
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img

sdb2: __________________________________________________ _______________________

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

sdb5: __________________________________________________ _______________________

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

sdc1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Fat32
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sdc1 starts
at sector 0. But according to the info from fdisk,
sdc1 starts at sector 8192.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

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

Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1549f232

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sda1 * 63 625,137,344 625,137,282 7 HPFS/NTFS


Drive: sdb ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e4b9e

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sdb1 * 63 149,838,254 149,838,192 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 149,838,255 156,296,384 6,458,130 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 149,838,318 156,296,384 6,458,067 82 Linux swap / Solaris


Drive: sdc ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sdc: 3965 MB, 3965190144 bytes
49 heads, 48 sectors/track, 3292 cylinders, total 7744512 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sdc1 * 8,192 7,744,511 7,736,320 b W95 FAT32


blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/sda1 04F87221F8721162 ntfs Storage
/dev/sdb1 c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03 ext4
/dev/sdb5 6feb460c-80db-4fbd-b64f-8f101aefb412 swap
/dev/sdc1 BE7A-BFA8 vfat 4GigSD

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

Device Mount_Point Type Options

aufs / aufs (rw)
/dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 (rw)
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (rw)
/dev/sdc1 /media/4GigSD vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=999,gid=999,sh ortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)


=========================== sdb1/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 $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then
saved_entry=${chosen}
save_env saved_entry
fi
}

function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
}
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
fi
fi
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en
insmod gettext
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/light-gray
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-19-generic" --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic root=UUID=c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-19-generic
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-19-generic (recovery mode)" --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03
echo Loading Linux 2.6.32-19-generic ...
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic root=UUID=c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03 ro single
echo Loading initial ramdisk ...
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-19-generic
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.31-20-generic" --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=UUID=c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.31-20-generic (recovery mode)" --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03
echo Loading Linux 2.6.31-20-generic ...
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=UUID=c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03 ro single
echo Loading initial ramdisk ...
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03
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 ###

=============================== sdb1/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=c33cca4d-5f9c-439b-833f-0df01c523f03 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=6feb460c-80db-4fbd-b64f-8f101aefb412 none swap sw 0 0

=================== sdb1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================


.2GB: boot/grub/core.img
3.0GB: boot/grub/grub.cfg
.6GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
.8GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-19-generic
.2GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic
.6GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic
.8GB: initrd.img
.6GB: initrd.img.old
.6GB: vmlinuz
.2GB: vmlinuz.old
=======Devices which don't seem to have a corresponding hard drive==============

sdd sde sdf

bigsmitty64
April 2nd, 2010, 09:48 PM
official 2 hr bump.....too soon? :)

bigsmitty64
April 3rd, 2010, 09:21 PM
Ttt