ipsi
January 18th, 2012, 11:36 AM
I attempted to upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 the other day. Most of it went fine until it tried to upgrade grub-pc. Spent over 24 hours waiting for it to work, and all I saw was a little activity on the hard drive. Eventually killed it and the upgrade kept on going. Also took a long, long time to run another grub command (I forget exactly which one). It's now been running for nearly 48 hours - not doing stuff all that time, necessarily, since I've had to sleep and work, but still.
Is this normal? I have two 2TB HDs in my machine (SATA, 7200 RPM), and a 320GB USB drive.
It finished the installation after I nuked a couple of the GRUB tasks and is now trying to re-install grub-pc. Unsurprisingly, it's taking a while. Does anyone have any idea how long I'm going to have to wait for it to finish? And will I have to do this again when I upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10?
I'd just nuke it entirely, but since it's trying to install grub-related stuff, I really, really don't want to leave my system in an unbootable state... Worst-case scenario, I guess I'll just re-format and install the latest version of Ubuntu. Thankfully /home is mounted on the second of the 2TB disks, while Ubuntu is a small partition on the first (Windows, and my games, take up most of the first disk).
Is this normal? I have two 2TB HDs in my machine (SATA, 7200 RPM), and a 320GB USB drive.
It finished the installation after I nuked a couple of the GRUB tasks and is now trying to re-install grub-pc. Unsurprisingly, it's taking a while. Does anyone have any idea how long I'm going to have to wait for it to finish? And will I have to do this again when I upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10?
I'd just nuke it entirely, but since it's trying to install grub-related stuff, I really, really don't want to leave my system in an unbootable state... Worst-case scenario, I guess I'll just re-format and install the latest version of Ubuntu. Thankfully /home is mounted on the second of the 2TB disks, while Ubuntu is a small partition on the first (Windows, and my games, take up most of the first disk).