Scotchpie
October 11th, 2010, 09:38 AM
Hi
I've been using Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire One since buying it a couple of years ago. Never had any major problems until yesterday when I installed 10.10.
I downloaded the full desktop .iso and burnt it to a pen-drive. Firstly I installed it on my main laptop and it runs flawlessly.
With the Aspire One however, though it boots into live mode and works well, after installing and rebooting all I am left with is a flashing prompt in the top left hand corner. I left it for up to an hour thinking it may be slow to boot as its a fresh install but nothing.
So I booted again into the live distro and checked my hard drive. As far as I can tell everything is there. So Ubuntu installed which made me think the problem was with grub.
From the live cd I installed grub using the commands:
>mount | tail -l
>sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/0d104aff-... /dev/sda
I rebooted but now I only have the grub prompt. When I type boot I get a warning saying that the kernel needs to be installed first.
So why is 10.10 not booting? What else can I do to fix this problem? Any help much appreciated.
I've been using Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire One since buying it a couple of years ago. Never had any major problems until yesterday when I installed 10.10.
I downloaded the full desktop .iso and burnt it to a pen-drive. Firstly I installed it on my main laptop and it runs flawlessly.
With the Aspire One however, though it boots into live mode and works well, after installing and rebooting all I am left with is a flashing prompt in the top left hand corner. I left it for up to an hour thinking it may be slow to boot as its a fresh install but nothing.
So I booted again into the live distro and checked my hard drive. As far as I can tell everything is there. So Ubuntu installed which made me think the problem was with grub.
From the live cd I installed grub using the commands:
>mount | tail -l
>sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/0d104aff-... /dev/sda
I rebooted but now I only have the grub prompt. When I type boot I get a warning saying that the kernel needs to be installed first.
So why is 10.10 not booting? What else can I do to fix this problem? Any help much appreciated.