Catsquotl
September 29th, 2011, 05:41 PM
Hi,
After a few years away from Linux i thought to give it another go on my brand new laptop.
Windows 7 was pre-installes and there is a recovery partition present courtesy of Acer.
The initial install went well until it was time to reboot.
After reboot... Windows started without so much of a hint of ubuntu being installed.
I figured i did something wrong so I deleted the extended partition freed up some space and did the install again on 360 gb of unallocated space.. Again everything seemed to be working, but no bootloader.
I then used chrooted to the installed system and with the commands i found in this dutch wiki.
Herstel_Grub_2_met_een_LiveCD (http://http://wiki.ubuntu-nl.org/community/Grub2/Grub2Herstel#Herstel_Grub_2_met_een_LiveCD)
Alas no avail.
So i downloaded the boot-repair-disk.
The rapair hinted at the fact that sda1 is nearly full and may be unable to boot.however windows is on hda3 and linux on hda5..
I am a bit reluctant to just wipe everything clean. Just got the laptop yesterday... Is there a way to install grub on a usb-stick and boot the installed ubuntu that is on my harddisk?
I don't understand fully why grub is unable to find its way to the mbr.
The boot-repair dump is here..
http://paste.debian.net/132961
ANy help will be higly appriciated..
Eelco
After a few years away from Linux i thought to give it another go on my brand new laptop.
Windows 7 was pre-installes and there is a recovery partition present courtesy of Acer.
The initial install went well until it was time to reboot.
After reboot... Windows started without so much of a hint of ubuntu being installed.
I figured i did something wrong so I deleted the extended partition freed up some space and did the install again on 360 gb of unallocated space.. Again everything seemed to be working, but no bootloader.
I then used chrooted to the installed system and with the commands i found in this dutch wiki.
Herstel_Grub_2_met_een_LiveCD (http://http://wiki.ubuntu-nl.org/community/Grub2/Grub2Herstel#Herstel_Grub_2_met_een_LiveCD)
Alas no avail.
So i downloaded the boot-repair-disk.
The rapair hinted at the fact that sda1 is nearly full and may be unable to boot.however windows is on hda3 and linux on hda5..
I am a bit reluctant to just wipe everything clean. Just got the laptop yesterday... Is there a way to install grub on a usb-stick and boot the installed ubuntu that is on my harddisk?
I don't understand fully why grub is unable to find its way to the mbr.
The boot-repair dump is here..
http://paste.debian.net/132961
ANy help will be higly appriciated..
Eelco