Dr_Michael_Brooks
August 5th, 2013, 02:12 AM
Hi,
I've broken both my Windows 8 and Ubuntu booting on my laptop with the help from boot-repair. Can you help me get my laptop booting Ubuntu off its new SSD?
I have an HP Pavilion Laptop which contains a 1TB magnetic drive natively. It was booting Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 8 happily via a Grub EFI on that drive. My intention was to move the Ubuntu 12.10 partition to the SSD and boot from that as the primary device and use fstab to mount the magnetic HDD as bulk storage. I did a fresh backup of all important files and configs to my network drive prior to dicking about.
I removed the laptop's CD/DVD optical drive and fitted it with an opti-bay caddy and a Samsung 250GB SSD. I partitioned the SSD to have: 800MB FAT32, 12GB swap, the remainder for ext4 /; I used Clonezilla to copy the partition containing Ubuntu 12.10 to the SSD's ext4 formatted partition.
My next step was to make the SSD bootable so I could tell the BIOS to boot from that as first choice. I put in a Live USB of Ubuntu 13.04 and booted into it (had to use the boot menu to navigate manually to the stick's EFI file to get round HP's annoying firmware bug where booting from a USB causes a hang). I installed boot-repair and followed the instructions on the Ubuntu Boot-Repair page (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair) with the UEFI advice in mind (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI). It detected my EFI partition, I went to >advanced options and selected the appropriate partition to install the EFI bootloader. All apparently ran well.
I restarted my laptop and went into the BIOS, changing the boot order to boot from the "CD/DVD drive" (i.e. the SSD) first, before the magnetic HDD. I saved this, exited and booted. However, the SSD didn't offer any bootloader at all, and the system reverted to booting from the HDD and produced a Windows 8 error screen stating that "Your system needs repairing".
The output of Boot-repair is here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5949455/
(sda = magnetic hard drive, sdb = new SSD)
Now I'm not bothered about Windows 8*, but I absolutely need to be able to boot into Ubuntu, preferably on the SSD and preferably with all my packages installed and configured how I like them. I have tried all sorts of partitioning, re-partitioning, re-copying, re-Clonezillaing, re-boot-repairing of sdb with no success. How can I make my SSD boot my Ubuntu image?
Cheers,
Mike
(* Windows 8 is a Janus-faced cluster**** of an OS. It's dreadful)
I've broken both my Windows 8 and Ubuntu booting on my laptop with the help from boot-repair. Can you help me get my laptop booting Ubuntu off its new SSD?
I have an HP Pavilion Laptop which contains a 1TB magnetic drive natively. It was booting Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 8 happily via a Grub EFI on that drive. My intention was to move the Ubuntu 12.10 partition to the SSD and boot from that as the primary device and use fstab to mount the magnetic HDD as bulk storage. I did a fresh backup of all important files and configs to my network drive prior to dicking about.
I removed the laptop's CD/DVD optical drive and fitted it with an opti-bay caddy and a Samsung 250GB SSD. I partitioned the SSD to have: 800MB FAT32, 12GB swap, the remainder for ext4 /; I used Clonezilla to copy the partition containing Ubuntu 12.10 to the SSD's ext4 formatted partition.
My next step was to make the SSD bootable so I could tell the BIOS to boot from that as first choice. I put in a Live USB of Ubuntu 13.04 and booted into it (had to use the boot menu to navigate manually to the stick's EFI file to get round HP's annoying firmware bug where booting from a USB causes a hang). I installed boot-repair and followed the instructions on the Ubuntu Boot-Repair page (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair) with the UEFI advice in mind (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI). It detected my EFI partition, I went to >advanced options and selected the appropriate partition to install the EFI bootloader. All apparently ran well.
I restarted my laptop and went into the BIOS, changing the boot order to boot from the "CD/DVD drive" (i.e. the SSD) first, before the magnetic HDD. I saved this, exited and booted. However, the SSD didn't offer any bootloader at all, and the system reverted to booting from the HDD and produced a Windows 8 error screen stating that "Your system needs repairing".
The output of Boot-repair is here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5949455/
(sda = magnetic hard drive, sdb = new SSD)
Now I'm not bothered about Windows 8*, but I absolutely need to be able to boot into Ubuntu, preferably on the SSD and preferably with all my packages installed and configured how I like them. I have tried all sorts of partitioning, re-partitioning, re-copying, re-Clonezillaing, re-boot-repairing of sdb with no success. How can I make my SSD boot my Ubuntu image?
Cheers,
Mike
(* Windows 8 is a Janus-faced cluster**** of an OS. It's dreadful)