timji
October 11th, 2010, 08:16 PM
After 6 tries, I finally got an "installation successful" screen from Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop (in previous tries, I eventually concluded that trying to switch to alternate consoles during installation, which got me a scrambled set of colored dots on the screen, eventually caused my system to freeze up).
Unfortunately, none of the 7 boot choices Grub gives me works, except for the Win/XP one.
For the 10.10 choices (generic, generic-recovery) I respectively get:
Loading Linux 2.6.35-22-generic ...
error: file not found
Loading initial ramdisk
error: file not found
Press any key to continue...
Loading Linux 2.6.35-22-generic ...
error: file not found
Loading initial ramdisk
error: you need to load the kernel first
Press any key to continue....
UPDATE and SOLUTION:
The grub.cfg looked fine at first glance, until I noticed a
search --nofloppy --fs-uuid --set <huge number here> ..."
--line; so I removed it, and now I can boot! (Can anybody tell me why?)
Unfortunately, console terminals still show broken patterns of colored squares on them, which I didn't have with Ubuntu 9.04.
Unfortunately, none of the 7 boot choices Grub gives me works, except for the Win/XP one.
For the 10.10 choices (generic, generic-recovery) I respectively get:
Loading Linux 2.6.35-22-generic ...
error: file not found
Loading initial ramdisk
error: file not found
Press any key to continue...
Loading Linux 2.6.35-22-generic ...
error: file not found
Loading initial ramdisk
error: you need to load the kernel first
Press any key to continue....
UPDATE and SOLUTION:
The grub.cfg looked fine at first glance, until I noticed a
search --nofloppy --fs-uuid --set <huge number here> ..."
--line; so I removed it, and now I can boot! (Can anybody tell me why?)
Unfortunately, console terminals still show broken patterns of colored squares on them, which I didn't have with Ubuntu 9.04.