Sorry for the long and technical post. I installed Ubuntu Intrepid Alpha 6 on my new Dell 910 netbook. To do this, I used a USB memory stick with the mini.iso on it and installed by sucking the packages from the net. I did it this way rather than using a full disk image because I use approx to cache packages.
The install went quite well however, I have now noticed that I need to have the USB stick in the USB port and manually select to boot from it if I actually want Ubuntu to boot up. If I didn't do it this way, it would simply try and network boot, ignoring the hard disk completely. I have since set the 'boot' flag on the HDD using GParted and it at least tries to boot from that HDD now, but complains that there is no valid Operating System. Looking at my drives, the USB stick is recognised as /dev/sdb and the HDD is /dev/sda as you would expect. /dev/sda does have a proper boot folder etc. The only real anomoly I can see is that in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst the 'root' option for each menu entry is set to '(hd1,0)'. Is this normal? Any ideas of how to fix this problem. If I need to re-install, I can do that now I have all the packages cached but I would rather not. Regards, Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
