pspkiller91
September 11th, 2010, 10:45 PM
I'm having trouble getting an installation of Ubuntu 10.04 to boot. Originally I had it installed on a 2.5" 60GB SATA drive but due to the need for this drive elsewhere I replaced it with an 3.5" 80GB model. Also the fact that I was using a 2.5" drive in a desktop meant that it couldn't be properly attached to the chassis as well as the obvious performance issues.
So, I decided to do a bit for bit clone of the 60GB drive onto the new 80GB drive. Obviously it didn't work.
The UUID of the new drive is different to that of the old drive meaning GRUB didn't know what to boot from. Fine. Stick the old drive back in with the new drive, boot up from the old drive, use blkid to get the UUID of the new drive, reboot holding shift to get to the GRUB menu and edit the boot commands to the new UUID. Sounds simple.
Except that didn't work either. GRUB editor doesn't save my changes when I hit ESC to exit or CTRL+X to boot.
Does anyone know a solution to my problem?
So, I decided to do a bit for bit clone of the 60GB drive onto the new 80GB drive. Obviously it didn't work.
The UUID of the new drive is different to that of the old drive meaning GRUB didn't know what to boot from. Fine. Stick the old drive back in with the new drive, boot up from the old drive, use blkid to get the UUID of the new drive, reboot holding shift to get to the GRUB menu and edit the boot commands to the new UUID. Sounds simple.
Except that didn't work either. GRUB editor doesn't save my changes when I hit ESC to exit or CTRL+X to boot.
Does anyone know a solution to my problem?