Hi there, welcome to the list/forum.
Glad you've come to Puredyne.
A few questions... what is your disk partition like? Are you installing
Puredyne by itself on the hard drive, or are there other OSes? Is the
Puredyne OS on the first partition of the disk?
It sounds like there's a problem with the naming of your hard disk in the
GRUB configuration. That long string of numbers is the UUID (universally
unique identifier) of the disk the installer thought was your hard disk. I
think I came to this problem before and solved it by removing the line in
the grub.cfg file that looks like this:
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set e8292e85-022b-4c78-9b65-a6203ad31887
However, that's probably not the best way to go about it.
In the GRUB splash screen, perhaps you can try to press 'e' while the
Puredyne menu entry is highlighted. You should get something like this:
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
set quiet=1
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,2)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set
e8292e85-022b-4c78-9b65-a6203ad31887
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-9-rt
root=UUID=e8292e85-022b-4c78-9b65-a6203ad31887 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-9-rt
Try deleting the line that begins with search if you can and then try to
boot. It may or may not work.
List? Whats the real problem here?
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:37 PM, metacurrent <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi forum,
>
> I am excited to use Puredyne for the first time. After months of wandering
> listlessly from distro to distro, I keep coming back to it. It seems to
> have everything I want to use/learn. But every time I try to install I am
> halted by a boot error that I do not have the knowhow to deal with. Here
> goes:
>
> Dell Inspiron 600m
> Intel Pentium M processor 1400MHZ
> using live cd with Puredyne 9.11
>
> live cd boots and works perfectly
> install seems to go fine
> When I reboot, and every boot following, the process stops at the splash
> screen. There is a message saying:
>
> error: no such device: a9fc945f-feb6-41f8-8593-a2b2b273c8f7
> Failed to boot default entries.
> Press any key to continue. . .
>
> Pressing any key does nothing but duplicate the same error message ad
> infinitum.
>
> Now in my recent distro journeys I encountered this very same scenario one
> other time, and it was with Xubuntu 10.04. (Regular Ubuntu 10.04 works)
>
> And I am afraid that is where this lowly musician's expertise ends. I will
> never give up, but I could sure use some help if anyone sees fit.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
>
>
>
>
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