hi can you help
been trying for 7 days to install and boot 12.04 i386 from usb

Have tried all sites & boot repair, tool the report is below

paste.ubuntu.com/1564361/

says installed ok but error comes up
"Re Boot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"

brief synopsis of report
Boot Info Script 5a35e00 + Boot-Repair extra info [Boot-Info 22Jan2013]


============================= 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 uses an
embedded config file:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
search.fs_uuid d58a859c-49d1-4bc2-ad97-8c01b4881c56 root ahci0,msdos1
set prefix=($root)/boot/grub
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----.
=> Syslinux MBR (4.04 and higher) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.

sda1: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 12.04.1 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: vfat
Boot sector type: SYSLINUX 4.04 20110518
Boot sector info: Syslinux looks at sector 15133312 of /dev/sdb1 for
its second stage. SYSLINUX is installed in the
directory. No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /syslinux/syslinux.cfg /ldlinux.sys

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

Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 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/sda1 * 2,048 971,007,999 971,005,952 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 971,010,046 976,771,071 5,761,026 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 971,010,048 976,771,071 5,761,024 82 Linux swap / Solaris


Drive: sdb _____________________________________________________________________

Disk /dev/sdb: 16.0 GB, 16008609792 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1946 cylinders, total 31266816 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 * 32 31,266,815 31,266,784 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


"blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/loop1 fcf342aa-de3f-483d-91f0-c410ae540da0 ext3
/dev/sda1 d58a859c-49d1-4bc2-ad97-8c01b4881c56 ext4
/dev/sda5 b7fd4c93-48de-485a-ab04-d8ec7b5629b9 swap
/dev/sdb1 980C-7793 vfat

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

Device Mount_Point Type Options

/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (ro,noatime)
/dev/sdb1 /cdrom vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)





boots ok of usb
thanks

You are missing the grub.cfg file from the bootinfoscript output. Did you download and run the bootinfoscript from sourceforge or get that output from some other source. Without grub.cfg info there's not much to do but guess. You have Grub2 in the mbr and the core.img file where it should be but no boot menu info.

Grub would complain if the config file would be missing, but in this case the BIOS does not even see Grub. I had this once (and it did cost me 2 hours to find it ) when I accidentally removed the harddisk from the boot options in the BIOS.
So the first advice I would give is: Check your BIOS if you have the harddisk in your boot order.

hi yancek
yes downloaded it from sourceforge any ideas of how I can get the missing files into the correct place? My guess is that files could be missing as Ive have an microwave link for the internet
Is it worth a new download of 12.04 and re install, doesnt really matter what I try as far as I can see the disk is wiped clean.


Yes the first thing I checked was BIOS hard drive is priority, have got as far as pink screen Booting from the hard drive on one occasion, but then it hung

Thanks

The bootinfoscript does not indicate the grub.cfg file is missing, in fact it indicates it is on sda1. What I was saying is that it was not included in the bootinfoscript output you posted.

How did you determine that? Did you mount sda1 to see the files using a Live CD??