Is this Ubuntu 14.04 recoverable?

[jdnevarez]

I run the Repair boot utility and report at
http://paste.ubuntu.com/13060214/

Can someone please tell me if this something I can recover or I need to reinstall Ubuntu?

Please advice

[Bucky Ball]

Welcome. Well, you appear to have nothing on drive sda and one large EFI FAT32 partition on sdb, so unsure what you have done here. There is no Ubuntu installed that I can see.

Also have no idea what these are:


/dev/zram0: UUID="b10b3d76-c14b-49c0-a338-58fbbfe05ea5" TYPE="swap"
/dev/zram1: UUID="0b608b5a-04b6-4644-87d1-f018c3cb8f4f" TYPE="swap"
/dev/zram2: UUID="5f1abac1-d318-42ea-ac2c-dfef612cfde4" TYPE="swap"
/dev/zram3: UUID="47591cb5-3bb4-4f96-b586-b5279b62e273" TYPE="swap"

Hopefully someone can enlighten us ... :-k

Please let us know what exactly you were trying to do. Did you have Ubuntu installed already, did something, and now it doesn't work, or are you trying to install Ubuntu on a disk from scratch, no Windows dual-boot (as this is in Installations and Upgrades I'm presuming this is the case)?

[jdnevarez]

Yes I used to have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit running, I was creating some yocto images, so my guess is that I flashed to the wrong /dev/sd> by mistake, but not sure because I reuse a command from history since I was doing it several times a day.
So for now I leaving the HD alone and reinstalling Ubuntu on a second drive with the hope that my installation can be recovered with the help of some savvy people here.
Thanks for our reply Bucky Ball

[Bucky Ball]

That's fine, but there is no installation on the sda disk. There is nothing there. sdb is the Boot Repair disk/USB? Take a look at this:


Drive: sda __________________________________________________ ___________________

Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes

Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System



Drive: sdb __________________________________________________ ___________________

Disk /dev/sdb: 4007 MB, 4007657472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 487 cylinders, total 7827456 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System

/dev/sdb1 * 2,048 7,827,455 7,825,408 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


"blkid" output: __________________________________________________ ______________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/sdb1 5657-EB7D vfat BOOT-REPAIR
/dev/zram0 b10b3d76-c14b-49c0-a338-58fbbfe05ea5 swap
/dev/zram1 0b608b5a-04b6-4644-87d1-f018c3cb8f4f swap
/dev/zram2 5f1abac1-d318-42ea-ac2c-dfef612cfde4 swap
/dev/zram3 47591cb5-3bb4-4f96-b586-b5279b62e273 swap

See the first entry for sda? There is nothing there, no partitions, nothing. Look in the 'blkid' output. sda does not even rate a mention. I don't think there is any retrieving your install as there isn't one there. About your only hope would be to stop using that drive immediately and try Testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk).

Good luck and perhaps someone else can throw in other ideas, but it looks grim to me. :|

[jdnevarez]

Thanks a lot, I was hoping for a miracle, because yes I saw sda with no partitions, it seems Ubuntu was wiped out.
Oh well I better start a new Installation right away. Thanks for making the time to look at the report and your support here.

[Bucky Ball]

All good and good luck. Please mark as solved (first link in my signature) and start a new thread if you hit any future brickwalls. ;)