Kubinb
January 9th, 2012, 04:41 AM
Hello,
Whelp I decided to upgrade my computer mobo processor ram vidcard etc basically everything except my hdd's. Now prior to the hardware upgrade i had my computer dual booting windows 7 and ubuntu 11.10 with grub2 with no issues each os being on its own separate hdd. By a friends suggestion, no formatting or any preparation was needed when upgrading hardware (last tim ei changed motherboards i had to format i was told this is no longer the case with new chipsets) so i put in the new goods and fired it up. sure enough i get a
hd0 out of disk
grub rescue>
i said ok maybe i just need to reinstall grub and did so... did not solve issue
ok i guess ill just format Linux drive and reinstall... did not solve issue
well lets see if i can at least recover mbr for windows... file not found cant boot or fix mbr for windows
ok maybe i need to format both os hard drives and reinstall obviously windows must install first... istalled windows and it boots to windows.
now to reinstall ubuntu...
hd0 out of disk
grub rescue>
and mbr is screwed again back at square 1. as much as i tried to manually configure grub and install it and try booting to different disks and trying to install grub on different disks i cannot fix the issue. even tried to manually set boot partition and root for linux to no resolution. im almost thinking that maybe this cheap asrock mobo i put in just doesnt have the bios capabilities to handle grub for dual boot? i just dont see this being true...
at this point if i boot into the windows drive i get:
hd1 out of disk
if i boot into the linux drive i get
hd0 out of disk
could it possibly be that i have 2 different grub installs which is messing everything up? but i dont understand how that can be since i formatted the linux drive probably 12 times and reinstalled linux trying different methods...
i read about the system config txt script and can run that and post it if it will help with interpreting my issue (right now im on my laptop)
please help ubuntu forums! linux is what my school runs on and all my programming is done on linux.
Whelp I decided to upgrade my computer mobo processor ram vidcard etc basically everything except my hdd's. Now prior to the hardware upgrade i had my computer dual booting windows 7 and ubuntu 11.10 with grub2 with no issues each os being on its own separate hdd. By a friends suggestion, no formatting or any preparation was needed when upgrading hardware (last tim ei changed motherboards i had to format i was told this is no longer the case with new chipsets) so i put in the new goods and fired it up. sure enough i get a
hd0 out of disk
grub rescue>
i said ok maybe i just need to reinstall grub and did so... did not solve issue
ok i guess ill just format Linux drive and reinstall... did not solve issue
well lets see if i can at least recover mbr for windows... file not found cant boot or fix mbr for windows
ok maybe i need to format both os hard drives and reinstall obviously windows must install first... istalled windows and it boots to windows.
now to reinstall ubuntu...
hd0 out of disk
grub rescue>
and mbr is screwed again back at square 1. as much as i tried to manually configure grub and install it and try booting to different disks and trying to install grub on different disks i cannot fix the issue. even tried to manually set boot partition and root for linux to no resolution. im almost thinking that maybe this cheap asrock mobo i put in just doesnt have the bios capabilities to handle grub for dual boot? i just dont see this being true...
at this point if i boot into the windows drive i get:
hd1 out of disk
if i boot into the linux drive i get
hd0 out of disk
could it possibly be that i have 2 different grub installs which is messing everything up? but i dont understand how that can be since i formatted the linux drive probably 12 times and reinstalled linux trying different methods...
i read about the system config txt script and can run that and post it if it will help with interpreting my issue (right now im on my laptop)
please help ubuntu forums! linux is what my school runs on and all my programming is done on linux.