Clippy
July 7th, 2010, 09:10 AM
Greetings!
Tonight I decided to upgrade my 8.10 install in the hopes of solving a few problems that recently cropped up (having been using 8.10 for over a year). I wanted to upgrade to 10.04, and after some research learned that (apparently) the best way to do this is to upgrade one release at a time, using the networked update manager feature.
So, I upgrade to 9.04 without too many problems. 9.04 didn't solve the original problems, however, so I went on to the next release on the road to 10.04 (i.e., 9.10). The 9.10 install (again, using the network update) seemed okay at first, aside from a few error messages. I was able to use the operating system, and my first order of business was to upgrade immediately to 10.04. However, the Update Manager was not functioning properly, and wouldn't allow me to upgrade to 10.04. I decided to reboot.
Upon reboot, I discovered that I was unable to load any OS whatsoever (I tried all options from the GRUB loader). I am not a computer expert, but from what I could tell, it was unable to mount the partitions on my HD.
I have a 10.04 Live CD (which is what I am running now), so I tried booting from that and proceeding with the install. I am able to do this, but it looks ominously as though 10.04 wants to erase all previous installations before install (the custom/advanced partitioning installation option was not promising - it didn't want to recognize any partition as "home" or "root" (etc.) from previous installs).
I have done some research on this but haven't found a solution yet. Of course I backed up my most crucial data prior to upgrading, but obviously I would prefer to upgrade rather than do a fresh install.
Any help (preferably in newbie-friendly terms!) would be much appreciated!
Tonight I decided to upgrade my 8.10 install in the hopes of solving a few problems that recently cropped up (having been using 8.10 for over a year). I wanted to upgrade to 10.04, and after some research learned that (apparently) the best way to do this is to upgrade one release at a time, using the networked update manager feature.
So, I upgrade to 9.04 without too many problems. 9.04 didn't solve the original problems, however, so I went on to the next release on the road to 10.04 (i.e., 9.10). The 9.10 install (again, using the network update) seemed okay at first, aside from a few error messages. I was able to use the operating system, and my first order of business was to upgrade immediately to 10.04. However, the Update Manager was not functioning properly, and wouldn't allow me to upgrade to 10.04. I decided to reboot.
Upon reboot, I discovered that I was unable to load any OS whatsoever (I tried all options from the GRUB loader). I am not a computer expert, but from what I could tell, it was unable to mount the partitions on my HD.
I have a 10.04 Live CD (which is what I am running now), so I tried booting from that and proceeding with the install. I am able to do this, but it looks ominously as though 10.04 wants to erase all previous installations before install (the custom/advanced partitioning installation option was not promising - it didn't want to recognize any partition as "home" or "root" (etc.) from previous installs).
I have done some research on this but haven't found a solution yet. Of course I backed up my most crucial data prior to upgrading, but obviously I would prefer to upgrade rather than do a fresh install.
Any help (preferably in newbie-friendly terms!) would be much appreciated!