On Friday, November 09, 2012 14:31:07, Matthias Johnson wrote:
> If I am reading this right you installed grub to your external drive and
> that is set to the first boot drive in BIOS. It got skipped over before
> because no OS and then the Windows drive booted before. Disconnect the
> external drive reboot...Windows? If yes check your BIOS boot order. If I
> am guessing correctly the SATA controller driver isnt in Ubuntu. You can
> poke around to see if the can be found to attempt the install to the
> internal drive.
>
> Matthias
What Jack reported at boot:
"No such device" is what happens and I am driven immediately to the
grub rescue prompt.
Here's what I think happened:
The Ubuntu 12 install went to the external hard disk that was attached via
USB /including/ the Grub2 configuration and the kernel, but the /bootable/
portion of Grub2 got installed on the /normal/ bootup hard disk. This would
explain the behavior -- Grub2 boots up from the hard disk, tries to find the
rest of grub, can't, and bails to a rescue prompt.
Jack, I think your best option for the moment might be to try booting an OS or
fixing Grub2 via the Grub2 rescue prompt.
http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2011/09/09/how-to-fix-grub-rescue-prompt-
without-live-cd-for-grub2/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2?rd=Grub2
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1565492
The other alternative is to use a Windows rescue CD to "fix" the boot sector
to boot to Windows (temporarily) as Al suggested
http://buggingweb.com/2012/04/how-to-fix-ubuntu-grub-rescue-prompt/
I've had this situation happen to me too. With some persistence (and another
computer available to browse web pages) I'm sure you'll get this fixed.
-- Chris
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