In the partition editor, Does the closed padlock next to the drive mean anything? It does have /mnt
Wes Morgan On Mon, February 21, 2011 10:07 pm, Ben Barrett wrote: > Howdy, I think this is what you want: > > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20from%20LiveCD > > > I was going to suggest chroot, but I see that is the 3rd option there! > > > Here is one more I found via google, nice and short and not terribly out > of date: > http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2010/06/02/how-to-chroot-to-ubuntu-using > -live-cd-to-fix-grub-rescue-prompt/ > > > Beware if your ubuntu is older it might be grub and not grub2... > > > Ben > > > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> ---------------------------- Original Message >> ---------------------------- >> Subject: solve one problem, create another problem >> From: [email protected] >> Date: Mon, February 21, 2011 5:01 pm >> To: [email protected] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> -- >> >> >> I have my system set up as a dual boot with XP and Ubuntu. I was >> able to resize, enlarge the Ubuntu partition and it looks like all of the >> information is intact, but when I lost the dual boot in doing this. XP >> runs, but I cannot get the dual boot to include Ubuntu. I have a live >> CD for Ubuntu and when I go to reinstall I get as far as >> manually installing on the correct partition but I get a message that >> says that I need to specify a partition for the root file. >> >> No root file system is defined >> Please correct this from the partitioning menu >> >> >> I have the options of >> / >> /boot >> /home >> /tmp >> /usr >> /var >> /srv >> /opt >> /user/local >> >> >> and it seems that none of these options are working for me. Where I need >> to install/repair the installation is /media/sda/7 hopefully without >> erasing anything. What am I missing? >> >> >> Wes Morgan >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> >> > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
