anechoic
November 25th, 2010, 05:39 PM
I wanted to do a clean install of 10.10 on my Dell netbook (SSD drive and no DVD or CD drive) so I made a LiveUSB by selecting '10.10_Live' using UNetbootin on the 10.04 system running on the netbook.
I made a backup of my '/home' partition and essentials on my '/' partition via Jungledisk
I did a sudo dpkg --get-selections > /home/user/package.selections
and made a 'save markings as' in Synaptic (which created a 0b doc - but that's another story) and copied my repositories file.
I got through the install in Ubuntu 10.10 but messed up on mounting my '/home' so I went back and corrected it on a second pass at a clean install
All went well except for a few minor annoyances and a modprobe error I got while booting - but I found a fix online which seemed to work
but it was when I tried to add newer kernels (in an attempt to fix the modprobe error mentioned above) and found that none of them were showing up in the list in Startup-Manager app that caused me to check the version of GRUB I was using.
I found that I was still using GRUB and not GRUB2.
So my questions are as follows:
- is there a known issue (I Googled and didn't find anything) about the Live USB created with UNetbootin using an old 10.10 iso?
-- I will download a newer iso and reinstall to see if this fixes things
- is there an easy way to just upgrade from GRUB to GRUB2?
-- all the methods I found were confusing and unclear - maybe someone can point me to a quintessential 'HOW TO upgrade to GRUB2' post somewhere?
thanks in advance!!
:)
KC
I made a backup of my '/home' partition and essentials on my '/' partition via Jungledisk
I did a sudo dpkg --get-selections > /home/user/package.selections
and made a 'save markings as' in Synaptic (which created a 0b doc - but that's another story) and copied my repositories file.
I got through the install in Ubuntu 10.10 but messed up on mounting my '/home' so I went back and corrected it on a second pass at a clean install
All went well except for a few minor annoyances and a modprobe error I got while booting - but I found a fix online which seemed to work
but it was when I tried to add newer kernels (in an attempt to fix the modprobe error mentioned above) and found that none of them were showing up in the list in Startup-Manager app that caused me to check the version of GRUB I was using.
I found that I was still using GRUB and not GRUB2.
So my questions are as follows:
- is there a known issue (I Googled and didn't find anything) about the Live USB created with UNetbootin using an old 10.10 iso?
-- I will download a newer iso and reinstall to see if this fixes things
- is there an easy way to just upgrade from GRUB to GRUB2?
-- all the methods I found were confusing and unclear - maybe someone can point me to a quintessential 'HOW TO upgrade to GRUB2' post somewhere?
thanks in advance!!
:)
KC