edison23
September 26th, 2014, 03:39 PM
Before you start even reading this, check whether you have correct version of installation file. (I was trying to install 32bit version on 64bit computer, that was the whole problem. You can find that out by suffix after the file name - "i386" is 32bit, "amd64" is 64bit.)
Hi, I'm pretty desperate so I'm hoping to get some advice here. I'll try to describe my situation as accurate as I can.
I have laptop Asus N56, windows 7 installed on one partition (ends somewhere no 95th GB on HDD), then around 8 GB partiton I long time ago created for some linux, unused up to today. Then data partition, then at the very end of HDD another free space, around 24 GB, where I wanted to have new Ubuntu 14.04 install.
Now, I've installed Ubuntu on that partition, it asked for a boot reserved partition, so I gave it to it on the end of that small 8 GB free space (made it around 100 MB big). I also put there swap. After install successfuly finished and I restarted, only minimal grub bash greeted me (sth like this: http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/p15/fig2grub.gif ). So I tried installing Ubuntu as I always (on other computers) did before, ie. without the boot reserved partition... obviously didn't work either. So I did a bit of a research, tried Boot Repair program - it told me I have to use 64bit version, but since it's not in repos, I can't cause I dont have a CD with me to burn it on and I dont have a clue how to use it without it (I found only .iso image of it, cca 500 MB, strangely big). So I searched more, tried a lot of stuff until I finally found some reasonable chain of things to do to make this work (at least so I thought). I learned that the boot reserved partition should be within first 100 GB on the HDD, so I deleted all the linux partitions I had, restoring the original state, did a clean install, created somewhere on 96th GB in that 8 GB free space the BootPartition (again cca 100 MB), made root for instalation (also in the 8GB free space) and mounted as /home the 24 GB free space (now formatted as ext4). Same minimal bash greeted me again.
So I tried this http://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-repair-restore-reinstall-grub-2-with-a-ubuntu-live-cd (worked without an error) - again, minimal bash after reboot; and then this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1599293 and here I got stuck on insmod loopback - when I do ls (hdX,Y)/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc I can see the loopback.mod there, but the insmod always returnes error on this and on ntfs too (file not found on both). Not on the other mod files.
I feel the whole thing has something to do with EFI, secure boot (which I found not in BIOS) and such stuff, but I'm pretty clueless here.
So, that's about it, do you have any idea, what should I do? Give up on Ubuntu? Commit suicide?
Thanks in advace.
Hi, I'm pretty desperate so I'm hoping to get some advice here. I'll try to describe my situation as accurate as I can.
I have laptop Asus N56, windows 7 installed on one partition (ends somewhere no 95th GB on HDD), then around 8 GB partiton I long time ago created for some linux, unused up to today. Then data partition, then at the very end of HDD another free space, around 24 GB, where I wanted to have new Ubuntu 14.04 install.
Now, I've installed Ubuntu on that partition, it asked for a boot reserved partition, so I gave it to it on the end of that small 8 GB free space (made it around 100 MB big). I also put there swap. After install successfuly finished and I restarted, only minimal grub bash greeted me (sth like this: http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/p15/fig2grub.gif ). So I tried installing Ubuntu as I always (on other computers) did before, ie. without the boot reserved partition... obviously didn't work either. So I did a bit of a research, tried Boot Repair program - it told me I have to use 64bit version, but since it's not in repos, I can't cause I dont have a CD with me to burn it on and I dont have a clue how to use it without it (I found only .iso image of it, cca 500 MB, strangely big). So I searched more, tried a lot of stuff until I finally found some reasonable chain of things to do to make this work (at least so I thought). I learned that the boot reserved partition should be within first 100 GB on the HDD, so I deleted all the linux partitions I had, restoring the original state, did a clean install, created somewhere on 96th GB in that 8 GB free space the BootPartition (again cca 100 MB), made root for instalation (also in the 8GB free space) and mounted as /home the 24 GB free space (now formatted as ext4). Same minimal bash greeted me again.
So I tried this http://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-repair-restore-reinstall-grub-2-with-a-ubuntu-live-cd (worked without an error) - again, minimal bash after reboot; and then this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1599293 and here I got stuck on insmod loopback - when I do ls (hdX,Y)/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc I can see the loopback.mod there, but the insmod always returnes error on this and on ntfs too (file not found on both). Not on the other mod files.
I feel the whole thing has something to do with EFI, secure boot (which I found not in BIOS) and such stuff, but I'm pretty clueless here.
So, that's about it, do you have any idea, what should I do? Give up on Ubuntu? Commit suicide?
Thanks in advace.