Animashaun_Tosin_D
April 23rd, 2014, 11:45 PM
At school, Grub loads perfectly on all Desktops PCs from my 'external HDD' which has Ubuntu's boot-loader (did this during OS installation) installed on it.
On another Laptop PC at home however (HP-Compaq 6710p), I am greeted with the boot-time infamous message: "Grub Rescue..." with a gentle blinking cursor beneath it.
While researching on this, I have come across terms like BIOS & [U]EFI; the former not being entirely new to me; the latter I've seen on the Desktop PCs at school; and other terms like GPT & MBR.
One other thing to note is that while 'Yumi' allows me to boot into the said laptop from my phone (as a 'live CD'), it does not recognise Yumi when installed on my USB-HDD; it says: "No operating system found..."
On another Laptop PC at home however (HP-Compaq 6710p), I am greeted with the boot-time infamous message: "Grub Rescue..." with a gentle blinking cursor beneath it.
While researching on this, I have come across terms like BIOS & [U]EFI; the former not being entirely new to me; the latter I've seen on the Desktop PCs at school; and other terms like GPT & MBR.
One other thing to note is that while 'Yumi' allows me to boot into the said laptop from my phone (as a 'live CD'), it does not recognise Yumi when installed on my USB-HDD; it says: "No operating system found..."