Rayve
June 19th, 2010, 01:45 AM
So, rather than do a clean install as I'd done for 9.04 and 9.10, I figured I'd try the "Upgrade" button, to see how that worked...
Bad idea so far.
Quick read: can only boot into LiveCD, trying to boot from hard drive powers down monitor and gives me nothing.
Detailed read: First, I ran into an issue during the upgrade with "choose where to install grub" options. I initially chose all of my /dev/sda partitions since I couldn't remember positively where I had /boot but I knew it wasn't /dev/sdb which is my backup drive only. Then it had some errors and said it only installed it at /dev/sda/7 - I don't know for sure what that one was, but I figured it was on a partition on that drive, so maybe it would be okay.
When I tried to reboot after installing the upgrade files (all on a wired connection, mind you), I got the ureadahead error (terminate status 5 - which is a scary thing to see!), a few more lines of code I can't catch (maybe three lines) and then my monitor would say "DVI NO SIGNAL" and power down, which is the same thing it does when I shut down my system.
For some reason, pressing F11 at POST and changing my boot order wouldn't let me boot from CD, so at first I was scared I couldn't even get into my 9.10 LiveCD I still have hanging around. Luckily, entering the BIOS setup and changing boot order manually let me get into LiveCD, which is where I am now.
I followed the directions at this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1423305 for my /var (which solved the ureadahead problem) but my monitor still powers down whenever I try to boot normally.
Worst of all, as I pulled up my root partition here in LiveCD... my boot folder is empty! This scared me until I figured it was because I had /boot on it's own partition - sure enough, I see a 1 GB partition which has the grub folder in there, among other files. How do I get that functioning? I'm not sure if I need the "Grub2 reinstall" I've been reading about (see here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling) because I don't get any sort of prompt, my screen just powers down and I have to reboot.
Reaching out to you fine folks to help me out. Let me know what information you need.
ETA: Looking at gparted, I see that /dev/sda/5 appears to be my boot partition - that's the partition with the right size for /boot and has the "boot" flag. But still no love on boot up.
Bad idea so far.
Quick read: can only boot into LiveCD, trying to boot from hard drive powers down monitor and gives me nothing.
Detailed read: First, I ran into an issue during the upgrade with "choose where to install grub" options. I initially chose all of my /dev/sda partitions since I couldn't remember positively where I had /boot but I knew it wasn't /dev/sdb which is my backup drive only. Then it had some errors and said it only installed it at /dev/sda/7 - I don't know for sure what that one was, but I figured it was on a partition on that drive, so maybe it would be okay.
When I tried to reboot after installing the upgrade files (all on a wired connection, mind you), I got the ureadahead error (terminate status 5 - which is a scary thing to see!), a few more lines of code I can't catch (maybe three lines) and then my monitor would say "DVI NO SIGNAL" and power down, which is the same thing it does when I shut down my system.
For some reason, pressing F11 at POST and changing my boot order wouldn't let me boot from CD, so at first I was scared I couldn't even get into my 9.10 LiveCD I still have hanging around. Luckily, entering the BIOS setup and changing boot order manually let me get into LiveCD, which is where I am now.
I followed the directions at this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1423305 for my /var (which solved the ureadahead problem) but my monitor still powers down whenever I try to boot normally.
Worst of all, as I pulled up my root partition here in LiveCD... my boot folder is empty! This scared me until I figured it was because I had /boot on it's own partition - sure enough, I see a 1 GB partition which has the grub folder in there, among other files. How do I get that functioning? I'm not sure if I need the "Grub2 reinstall" I've been reading about (see here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling) because I don't get any sort of prompt, my screen just powers down and I have to reboot.
Reaching out to you fine folks to help me out. Let me know what information you need.
ETA: Looking at gparted, I see that /dev/sda/5 appears to be my boot partition - that's the partition with the right size for /boot and has the "boot" flag. But still no love on boot up.