Hi,

Instead of doing an upgrade from Kubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 I installed a fresh copy onto a 1TB drive. Not feeling well at the time looks like i stuffed up.

The option to boot from 12.04 doesn't appear when the machine is loading. 12.04 version is on a 320GB separate hard drive.

I'm reluctant to try anything without some advice from the community. I looked at the Boot-Repair utility and various web sites but imagine it's probably simpler if you know what you're doing.

I have my steam install on the 12.04 copy and don't have the bandwidth to do a reinstall of Steam apps or other apps.

Happy for a dual boot solution if that is a good way to go.

Any assistance gratefully accepted.

Try a "sudo update-grub" and see what that finds. If that doesn't fix it, go get boot-info-script (make sure you have the Universe repo), run it and post the RESULTS.txt it generates. It's the same code as boot repair uses, but only lists, doesn't attempt to "repair" anything.

How do I re-run the boot-info-script and should I do the automatic repair?

Text from output:

Boot Info Script e7fc706 + Boot-Repair extra info [Boot-Info 9Feb2015]


============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================

=> Grub2 (v2.00) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for /boot/grub and uses an embedded config file:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
search.fs_uuid b6c522b5-ffa5-436e-babd-9295876bcf1e root hd1,msdos5
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.

sda1: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab
/boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img

sda2: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sda5: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files:

sdb2: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:

sdb5: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 14.10
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab
/boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img

sdb6: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________

Disk /dev/sda: 232.9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System

/dev/sda1 * 2,048 484,204,543 484,202,496 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 484,206,590 488,396,799 4,190,210 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 484,206,592 488,396,799 4,190,208 82 Linux swap / Solaris


Drive: sdb _____________________________________________________________________

Disk /dev/sdb: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System

/dev/sdb1 2,048 989,676,579 989,674,532 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 989,677,566 1,953,523,711 963,846,146 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 989,677,568 1,949,333,503 959,655,936 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 1,949,335,552 1,953,523,711 4,188,160 82 Linux swap / Solaris


"blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/sda1 cb0b6fb4-1278-4da3-abfb-fddc0b9562ff ext4
/dev/sda5 636bd4c8-3ad3-4acd-9f33-5db1f6197f3a swap
/dev/sdb1 31fb4bb5-496b-4b9a-b4f5-a8e9146c77b7 ext4
/dev/sdb5 b6c522b5-ffa5-436e-babd-9295876bcf1e ext4
/dev/sdb6 1aec8576-faf6-435d-9347-d03277fbb63b swap

========================= "ls -l /dev/disk/by-id" output: ======================

total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 4 11:50 ata-Hitachi_HDS721010DLE630_MSK5235H2M9JSG -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 4 13:01 ata-Hitachi_HDS721010DLE630_MSK5235H2M9JSG-part1 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 4 11:50 ata-Hitachi_HDS721010DLE630_MSK5235H2M9JSG-part2 -> ../../sdb2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 4 11:50 ata-Hitachi_HDS721010DLE630_MSK5235H2M9JSG-part5 -> ../../sdb5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 4 11:50 ata-Hitachi_HDS721010DLE630_MSK5235H2M9JSG-part6 -> ../../sdb6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 4 11:50 ata-LTN526D -> ../../sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 4 11:50 ata-MAXTOR_STM3250310AS_6RY5JSNV -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 4 11:50 ata-MAXTOR_STM3250310AS_6RY5JSNV-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 4 11:50 ata-MAXTOR_STM3250310AS_6RY5JSNV-part2 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 4 11:50 ata-MAXTOR_STM3250310AS_6RY5JSNV-part5 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 4 11:50 ata-TSSTcorpCD_DVDW_SH-W162C -> ../../sr1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 4 11:50 wwn-0x5000cca37ce4f5df -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 4 13:01 wwn-0x5000cca37ce4f5df-part1 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 4 11:50 wwn-0x5000cca37ce4f5df-part2 -> ../../sdb2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 4 11:50 wwn-0x5000cca37ce4f5df-part5 -> ../../sdb5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 4 11:50 wwn-0x5000cca37ce4f5df-part6 -> ../../sdb6

================================ Mount points: =================================

Device Mount_Point Type Options

/dev/sdb5 / ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)


=========================== sda1/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================

Is that all there is ?. Need much more.
Just run it as you did last time - same command. Post all of the RESULTS.txt (not RESULTS1.txt).

If you run the update-grub, run the bootinfoscript after that.