Hi all,
This is my second post here, so let me know if I do/say anything un-etiquette like.
I installed feisty the other day to a USB but have since downloaded and installed 11.10 thanks to Jefro here on LQ.
It took three installs to finally get it working(ish), this I think was down to my own point-click-quickly-get-it-done-today attitude.
Ok, so the issue I currently have is I installed 11.10 on my 8gb USB pen with a ext2 and a 390mb+/- swap, When I installed I unplugged all my HDD's so I could be sure nothing would be affected.
When I boot up with only the USB pen in I get GRUB and click normal boot. But it gives
"Error hd0 no disc" Press any key to continue... Continues to boot.
Now I don't like to waste anyone's time so I have exhausted my searches, there's a number of people with this issue.
It may be my BIOS or simple issue with config. As it does boot I guess there's got to be a way of circumventing the error??
More importantly though when I plug my usual internal sata hdd
in I can't get past the boot error, it says the same thing as above but pressing any key either hangs it or I get BusyBox!! The whole intention of my setting this up is I don't have much access to any one computer and use whatever pc I can find at the time. So I need to be able to boot regardless of any other drives attached to the system.
Here's some info:
Code:
Boot Info Script 0.60 from 17 May 2011
============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
=> Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sde and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for on this drive.
=> Grub Legacy (v0.97) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdf and looks on boot
drive #2 in partition #1 for /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst.
sde1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext2
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 11.10
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img
sde2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdf2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe
============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sde _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sde: 8004 MB, 8004304896 bytes
247 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1020 cylinders, total 15633408 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/sde1 * 2,048 14,856,191 14,854,144 83 Linux
/dev/sde2 14,856,192 15,632,383 776,192 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Drive: sdf _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sdf: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20673 cylinders, total 312581808 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/sdf2 * 63 312,575,759 312,575,697 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
"blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/sde1 5fc5435b-0e95-4495-89cc-021464414d4e ext2
/dev/sde2 e1bbf5d3-0f5a-48e3-b484-bfcc6fdd380d swap
/dev/sdf2 F64403364402F8DF ntfs
================================ Mount points: =================================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/sde1 / ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sdf2 /media/F64403364402F8DF fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)
=========================== sde1/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
set have_grubenv=true
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
}
function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
if [ -n "${have_grubenv}" ]; then if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
}
function load_video {
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
}
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5fc5435b-0e95-4495-89cc-021464414d4e
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=auto
load_video
insmod gfxterm
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5fc5435b-0e95-4495-89cc-021464414d4e
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en_GB
insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
if [ "${recordfail}" = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
if background_color 44,0,30; then
clear
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
if [ ${recordfail} != 1 ]; then
if [ -e ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt ]; then
if hwmatch ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt 3; then
if [ ${match} = 0 ]; then
set linux_gfx_mode=keep
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=keep
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
export linux_gfx_mode
if [ "$linux_gfx_mode" != "text" ]; then load_video; fi
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.0.0-12-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5fc5435b-0e95-4495-89cc-021464414d4e
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=/dev/sde1 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.0.0-12-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5fc5435b-0e95-4495-89cc-021464414d4e
echo 'Loading Linux 3.0.0-12-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=/dev/sde1 ro recovery nomodeset
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5fc5435b-0e95-4495-89cc-021464414d4e
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5fc5435b-0e95-4495-89cc-021464414d4e
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
if [ "x${timeout}" != "x-1" ]; then
if keystatus; then
if keystatus --shift; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=0
fi
else
if sleep --interruptible 3 ; then
set timeout=0
fi
fi
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
=============================== sde1/etc/fstab: ================================
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sde1 during installation
UUID=5fc5435b-0e95-4495-89cc-021464414d4e / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sde2 during installation
UUID=e1bbf5d3-0f5a-48e3-b484-bfcc6fdd380d none swap sw 0 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
=================== sde1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
= boot/grub/core.img 1
= boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
= boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic 6
= boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic 3
= initrd.img 6
= vmlinuz 3
========= Devices which don't seem to have a corresponding hard drive: =========
sda sdb sdc sdd
=============================== StdErr Messages: ===============================
unlzma: Decoder error
awk: cmd. line:36: Math support is not compiled in
awk: cmd. line:36: Math support is not compiled in
awk: cmd. line:36: Math support is not compiled in
awk: cmd. line:36: Math support is not compiled in
awk: cmd. line:36: Math support is not compiled in
awk: cmd. line:36: Math support is not compiled in