I tried installing Ubuntu 10.10 maverick edition on an old system, but ran into trouble with the MBR and grub
I get the infamous grub error 17 which means that it cannot find the partition. I have 4 disks, 2 scsi and 2 ide: sda is ide 40 Gb /home sdb is ide 120 Gb /boot /swap /all others /backup sdc is scsi 38 Gb /spare sdd is scsi 18 Gb /dos /win98 /winbck I tried running "grub-install /dev/sdb" command while running the Ubuntu CD live and that took. I did set the boot flag on sdb3 partition (and sdd2). But when I tried to run "update-grub > grub.cfg in the /boot/grub folder area, the command fails and says "cannot find /, dev mounted?" But aufs is mounted as "/" Of course, not having this fixed, I cannot boot the system. Would using knoppix 6.2 to at least boot to a working OS do a better job? I am not sure how to fix this problem, when the only working system is a live CD. Has anyone had this problem and what did you do to fix it? Randall _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
