Tim Legg
May 19th, 2010, 03:48 PM
Hello,
I installed Ubuntu 10.04-Desktop last night on an EEEPC 1005HA. Actually I installed it on a 16GB SD card, so the Windows partition can be preserved.
For the most part, the install went okay except for a couple minor problems.
* When I tell at the BIOS level to boot from the SD Card, absolutely noting happens.
* When I tell it to boot from the hard disk, it now requires the SD card to be present. Apparently, even though I told the installer to not install onto the hard disk, it decided in it's best interest that it would do so anyway, or at least in part (which I find is a very disturbing issue with the installer). If the SD card is not present, I get this error.
error: no such device: c27f3579-7ee0-431a-ab42-4471071ce4b4.
grub rescue> _
If the card is present, it seems that the MBR on the hard disk uses the SD card in some respect and will ask me which operating system to boot. I want to make this decision at the BIOS level because there will be other SD cards with other operating systems such as FreeBSD, Linux From Scratch, Windows 95 (just kidding!)
I need to get an idea on how to fix this broken installation. Since I don't trust installers to work right, I used dd to copy the entire 250GB /dev/sda to a file on a USB hard disk. So there is a backup.
Tim Legg
I installed Ubuntu 10.04-Desktop last night on an EEEPC 1005HA. Actually I installed it on a 16GB SD card, so the Windows partition can be preserved.
For the most part, the install went okay except for a couple minor problems.
* When I tell at the BIOS level to boot from the SD Card, absolutely noting happens.
* When I tell it to boot from the hard disk, it now requires the SD card to be present. Apparently, even though I told the installer to not install onto the hard disk, it decided in it's best interest that it would do so anyway, or at least in part (which I find is a very disturbing issue with the installer). If the SD card is not present, I get this error.
error: no such device: c27f3579-7ee0-431a-ab42-4471071ce4b4.
grub rescue> _
If the card is present, it seems that the MBR on the hard disk uses the SD card in some respect and will ask me which operating system to boot. I want to make this decision at the BIOS level because there will be other SD cards with other operating systems such as FreeBSD, Linux From Scratch, Windows 95 (just kidding!)
I need to get an idea on how to fix this broken installation. Since I don't trust installers to work right, I used dd to copy the entire 250GB /dev/sda to a file on a USB hard disk. So there is a backup.
Tim Legg