11.04 installed twice?

[1005703]

Messed up. Installed 11.04 both SSD on Eee 901. 16GB (SM-ASUS-PHISON) SSD won't load, 4 GB (SS-ASUS-PHISON) SSD loads but barely works. What to do?

[vivakh]

Hi, can you please give us some more details of your set up. Were there any other OS's on the computer? Are you unable to see grub at all?

[1005703]

Thanks for reply. Was trying replace 10.04 netbook edition. Grub: yes when load 4GB SSD, no when load 16GB.

[vivakh]

So when you installed 10.04 onto the 4gb you installed the boot loader onto that drive as well. So when you boot from the 4 gb, you see the grub and that takes you into 10.04. Correct?

Now when you installed 11.04, what did you do? Did you choose the option to replace 10.04 with 11? or install the side by side?
I dont know if there is a better way to solve your problem, but what i would do, is if u can log into 10, back up all your info onto an external hd or network drive, then do a clean re-install of 11. Deleting the existing volumes and installing 11 and the boot loader to the 4 GB.

[1005703]

No, I only see grub when I select the 4GB SSD after pressing Esc on start-up. The boot loader must be on the 16GB SSD. I think the problem is that I should have installed 11.04 on the latter in the first place?

When I installed 11.04 I replaced 10.04 (or least that's the option I chose).

I don't want to save any of its data. I'm simply trying to get it fully operational to sell on, as I've recently purchased a new one.

[vivakh]

Well in that case, this is what i would do. Pop your 11.04 installation in, when it comes to the part to select the drive to install on, choose "something else" Here you will manually create the partitions for the install. You will use the entire 4GB as mount point "/" formatted with ext4. 15GB of the 16GB as mount point "/home" and 1GB of the 16GB as swap. Install the boot loader to the 4 GB.

[1005703]

That worked a treat! Thanks a lot for your help!