BenginM
October 26th, 2012, 05:29 PM
i was trying to help a friend of mine installing Ubuntu after he tried it and decided to dual boot with his Windows Xp , after the installation was done , he rebooted then got an error message : "error: system error grub rescue".
i suggested he should try and fix it using the tool "boot-repair" .. but then he posted th following link ..
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1307036/
after noticing he downloaded and actually trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 and not 12.04! i suggested he should download and try to install Ubuntu 12.04 instead , and so we went to start the whole process all over again , but this time i made sure to check and test with the ISO MD5sum , he matched , then he went to burn the iso using Unetbootin , after that he gone Off-line .. haven't seen him since !
I spoke to a friend on IRC at #ubuntu , he noticed the extra partition /dev/sda5 .. which was a good catch of him!
I checked the partition table with him during the installations process , he never mentioned that he added an extra partition , which later on turned out to be /dev/sda5 !
So what to do next !, is it save to remove this partition? .. adding a /boot partition sounds fruitless to me!
# any thoughts, hints!
i suggested he should try and fix it using the tool "boot-repair" .. but then he posted th following link ..
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1307036/
after noticing he downloaded and actually trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 and not 12.04! i suggested he should download and try to install Ubuntu 12.04 instead , and so we went to start the whole process all over again , but this time i made sure to check and test with the ISO MD5sum , he matched , then he went to burn the iso using Unetbootin , after that he gone Off-line .. haven't seen him since !
I spoke to a friend on IRC at #ubuntu , he noticed the extra partition /dev/sda5 .. which was a good catch of him!
I checked the partition table with him during the installations process , he never mentioned that he added an extra partition , which later on turned out to be /dev/sda5 !
So what to do next !, is it save to remove this partition? .. adding a /boot partition sounds fruitless to me!
# any thoughts, hints!