newbie86
June 23rd, 2008, 09:28 AM
I tried to install ubuntu. Everything went fine until at the end. It said grub failed, and it's a fatal error. I've looked around and I couldn't find anything that can help me.
Here is the fdisk -l from booting into Live CD for ubuntu:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2bddda92
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1275 10240000 27 Unknown
/dev/sda2 * 1275 11999 86135808 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 12000 12024 200812+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 12025 19457 59705572+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 12025 19457 59705541 8e Linux LVM
I believe sda1 is the drive that stores the Vista backup that came along on my Acer laptop. sda2 is obviously my vista partition.
I tried installed ubuntu twice, once using sda3 as my swap, and once marking sda3 as "not used for ubuntu", but just sda4/sda5.
I previously set up Fedora on sda3 to sda5 (exactly the same partition that I have now). I'm simply installing ubuntu over fedora, but my grub is failing miserably.
When I boot, I get into grub command line, and no OS can be booted now.
Is there an expert that can help me? Thank you very much.
:confused:
Here is the fdisk -l from booting into Live CD for ubuntu:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2bddda92
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1275 10240000 27 Unknown
/dev/sda2 * 1275 11999 86135808 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 12000 12024 200812+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 12025 19457 59705572+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 12025 19457 59705541 8e Linux LVM
I believe sda1 is the drive that stores the Vista backup that came along on my Acer laptop. sda2 is obviously my vista partition.
I tried installed ubuntu twice, once using sda3 as my swap, and once marking sda3 as "not used for ubuntu", but just sda4/sda5.
I previously set up Fedora on sda3 to sda5 (exactly the same partition that I have now). I'm simply installing ubuntu over fedora, but my grub is failing miserably.
When I boot, I get into grub command line, and no OS can be booted now.
Is there an expert that can help me? Thank you very much.
:confused: