Trouble installing 7.10 on a Laptop with SATA

netjack · 03-16-2008, 02:04 AM

Hello,

I am trying to install ubuntu 7.10 on my Fujitsu Siemens laptop which has a 80Gb SATA drive. The bottomline: grub is missing.

Here is the detail:
From the LiveCD, I choose to install ubuntu, giving grant on the entire hdd (sda in my case). When I click on the advanced tab, I see that the boot loader is going to be played on hda0. Install proceeds and finishes and I reboot. At the prompt, after reboot, the error msg "Error loading operating system" appears. I googled and found this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351, but when I try to look for grub (find /boot/grub/stage1), it says it can't file the file. I tried what followed next from that topic (i.e. what to do when you can't find stage1), but come to an halt because I can't find my proc subsytem.

Thanks in advance
~netjack

aus9 · 03-16-2008, 05:16 AM

bootloader installed on hda0 does not sound good.

it sounds likes grub installed into the root partition....that is a partition and not into the mbr.

2) using the live cd...you can fix it....most live cds work the same altho I do not use ubuntu ....so boot it up and open a shell....if the shell does not give you automatic root powers you will need to

su

otherwise the rest are

Code:

grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit

3) you can also use the live cd to check your hard drive /etc/fstab.....but you should have a good enough memory to know that anyway?

4) my signature explains grubspeak and the troubleshooter....the ts is used when you have grub in mbr.

netjack · 03-17-2008, 01:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aus9

Code:

grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)

After the setup-step, I get this error

Code:

Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/boot/stage1" exists... no
Error 15: File not found"

If I check my fstab settings, this is what I get back:

Code:

unionfs / unionfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0 
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

UPDATE:
Ok, I had one thing wrong: not hda0, but hd0 was choosen by the Life CD as place where to put GRUB. According to here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...rub/+bug/21186, the Live-CD should haven chosen sd0 instead of hd0.

aus9 · 03-17-2008, 02:50 AM

so did you solve this or not pls?

post your /etc/fstab if you do not understand my signature....I assumed hda0 meant hda1.

netjack · 03-17-2008, 03:01 AM

No, I did not solve. Using sd0 instead of hd0 during new install didn't help.

This is my fstab

Code:

unionfs / unionfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0 
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

netjack · 03-17-2008, 09:19 AM

Ok, I did solve this, there was an error on the hdd. I used PartitionMasgic to fix that; after that the installer worked flawlessly!

thx
~netjack