Al1000
June 15th, 2014, 10:40 PM
Hi,
Initially I had XP installed on the hard drive on the primary partition on my desktop pc, then I installed Lucid Puppy 5.2.8.6 on sda5 and used Grub4Dos for dual boot, and everything worked fine.
This evening I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on sda7 (and created a swap area on sda6 using the Ubuntu CD). The Ubuntu installer found XP no problem, but not Puppy (which I guess might be because it's a frugal installation). When I restarted the computer only Ubuntu and XP were available on the boot menu, but it booted into either without any problems.
So I deleted the existing Grub4Dos files, then booted up into the Puppy installation by booting from the Puppy CD, and ran Grub4Dos again. Now I have a boot menu with all three operating systems on it, but while it boots into either Puppy or XP, it won't boot into Ubuntu. When I select Ubuntu from the menu, a bunch of text scrolls down the screen far too fast for me to read, then when it stops a couple of seconds later, there is a flashing ''_'' (without the quotes) which looks like it's inviting me to type something, but nothing happens when I press buttons on the keyboard and the only way out I have found is to press the reset button on the computer. At this point, the line of text at the top of the screen, which is the first line that remains visible after the text scrolls down the screen, reads:
[ 0.749218] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
... in case that gives anyone a clue as to what's going on.
The Grub4Dos menu.lst file is:
# menu.lst produced by grub4dosconfig-v1.9.1
color white/blue black/cyan white/black cyan/black
#splashimage=/splash.xpm
timeout 10
default 0
# Frugal installed Puppy
title Lupu 528 (sda5/puppy528)
uuid 7b0f742b-518a-4061-bf29-362260602351
kernel /puppy528/vmlinuz psubdir=puppy528 pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
initrd /puppy528/initrd.gz
# Full installed Linux
title Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS (sda7)
uuid fa0ae3f4-4462-4bd3-98c4-e12b127f94b2
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 ro
# Windows
# this entry searches Windows on the HDD and boot it up
title Windows\nBoot up Windows if installed
errorcheck off
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /bootmgr
chainloader /bootmgr
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /ntldr
chainloader /ntldr
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /io.sys
chainloader /io.sys
errorcheck on
# Advanced Menu
title Advanced menu
configfile /menu-advanced.lst
commandline
I am relatively new to Linux. I had Ubuntu installed for a month or so as a dual boot with XP, before I discovered the hard drive was beginning to fail. I have also tried Mint 16 and Linux Lite 2.0 although only briefly, one after the other, and also both as dual boot systems with XP. I have been using Puppy for a couple of months on my laptop as a ''live'' operating system with a savefile on USB, but only installed it on my desktop pc the other day which was the first time I used Grub4Dos. I intend to mess around with Puppy and perhaps add additional frugal installations on sda5, so sticking with Grub4Dos for booting seems like the best option I am aware of.
If only I could get Ubuntu to boot from it. I haven't a clue why it won't, so any advice would be much appreciated.
Initially I had XP installed on the hard drive on the primary partition on my desktop pc, then I installed Lucid Puppy 5.2.8.6 on sda5 and used Grub4Dos for dual boot, and everything worked fine.
This evening I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on sda7 (and created a swap area on sda6 using the Ubuntu CD). The Ubuntu installer found XP no problem, but not Puppy (which I guess might be because it's a frugal installation). When I restarted the computer only Ubuntu and XP were available on the boot menu, but it booted into either without any problems.
So I deleted the existing Grub4Dos files, then booted up into the Puppy installation by booting from the Puppy CD, and ran Grub4Dos again. Now I have a boot menu with all three operating systems on it, but while it boots into either Puppy or XP, it won't boot into Ubuntu. When I select Ubuntu from the menu, a bunch of text scrolls down the screen far too fast for me to read, then when it stops a couple of seconds later, there is a flashing ''_'' (without the quotes) which looks like it's inviting me to type something, but nothing happens when I press buttons on the keyboard and the only way out I have found is to press the reset button on the computer. At this point, the line of text at the top of the screen, which is the first line that remains visible after the text scrolls down the screen, reads:
[ 0.749218] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
... in case that gives anyone a clue as to what's going on.
The Grub4Dos menu.lst file is:
# menu.lst produced by grub4dosconfig-v1.9.1
color white/blue black/cyan white/black cyan/black
#splashimage=/splash.xpm
timeout 10
default 0
# Frugal installed Puppy
title Lupu 528 (sda5/puppy528)
uuid 7b0f742b-518a-4061-bf29-362260602351
kernel /puppy528/vmlinuz psubdir=puppy528 pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
initrd /puppy528/initrd.gz
# Full installed Linux
title Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS (sda7)
uuid fa0ae3f4-4462-4bd3-98c4-e12b127f94b2
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 ro
# Windows
# this entry searches Windows on the HDD and boot it up
title Windows\nBoot up Windows if installed
errorcheck off
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /bootmgr
chainloader /bootmgr
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /ntldr
chainloader /ntldr
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /io.sys
chainloader /io.sys
errorcheck on
# Advanced Menu
title Advanced menu
configfile /menu-advanced.lst
commandline
I am relatively new to Linux. I had Ubuntu installed for a month or so as a dual boot with XP, before I discovered the hard drive was beginning to fail. I have also tried Mint 16 and Linux Lite 2.0 although only briefly, one after the other, and also both as dual boot systems with XP. I have been using Puppy for a couple of months on my laptop as a ''live'' operating system with a savefile on USB, but only installed it on my desktop pc the other day which was the first time I used Grub4Dos. I intend to mess around with Puppy and perhaps add additional frugal installations on sda5, so sticking with Grub4Dos for booting seems like the best option I am aware of.
If only I could get Ubuntu to boot from it. I haven't a clue why it won't, so any advice would be much appreciated.