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MuppetandChums
November 6th, 2011, 09:43 AM
Hi all,

Apart from a long time user of Ubuntu on an ancient Thinkpad T41 I've had a dual boot Win 7 & Ubuntu machine for 2 years. Ubuntu was an insurance policy to ensure access to PC data after Windows went bang ( remember Vista ?).

Running an SSD (80Gb) with 8GB RAM, I set aside 10Gb for the Ubuntu (root 3Gb & swap at 1.5Gb and data at 6Gb) in the SSD.

I could not upgrade from stable 10.04 direct to 11.10, it wanted intermediate upgrade steps..10.10 etc.

At some point the 3Gb partition became full (how?) and the Ubuntu install failed; the process NEVER warned me I was about to run out of disk but tried to carry on the install in the ext4 6Gb partition.

Corruption followed & I lost GRUB2 ( grub rescue> is totally - not user friendly)

DONT WASTE A DAY AS I DID trying to fix Ubuntu or GRUB2. Bootable pendrives, CDs & ISOs. Following posts that are wrong. aaaarrrgggh.

BLOW IT AWAY.

Stick in your Win 7 disk, fire up System Repair, Command Prompt & use BOOTREC.EXE & FIXMBR to get back Win 7 & all your/my data & programs. See MS kb # 927392.

I guess Ubuntu is STILL not fit for the commercial desktop. Shame.
Glad I had no data in Ubuntu.

I'm getting too old for all this. Yes stick with 10.04.

Seb71
November 6th, 2011, 10:00 AM
I could not upgrade from stable 10.04 direct to 11.10, it wanted intermediate upgrade steps..10.10 etc.

Yes, this is worse than upgrading Windows. No, wait...

raja.genupula
November 6th, 2011, 12:40 PM
Yes, this is worse than upgrading Windows. No, wait...

+1
you have a LTS so just hold for a while upto 12.04 release because that's also a LTS.so you can directly upgraded to LTS -to LTS .
:D