Hi Friends, A friend of mine is running Ubuntu 9.10 (Ultimate 2.4) on his HP DV 5 Series laptop.
Grub for Ubuntu does not work - neither recovery nor normal option Below is an error he is getting while booting up - , it is dual booted with Wincedows 7 We need your advice. Am also asking hem to get onto the list. @ Hem join the list at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in below is original error message, if i understand correctly copied by hand and then mailed. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hem Tewari <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:29 AM Subject: Linux help To: "Ramnarayan.K" <[email protected]> Hi Ram, Pl. find pasted below the message that I get while opening in recovery mode: [2.324800] usb 6-1: New Full speed USB Device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [2.483649] usb 6-1: Configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [2.709467] [drm] LVDS-8 set mode 1280x800 14 [2.724539] usb 7-2: new full speed USB Device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [2.483649] usb 6-1: Configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [3.231080] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x50 Begin: Loading essential drivers…. [3.368903] xor: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse [3.388508] pIII_see : 7292.000 MB/sec [3.388539 xor: using functions: pIII_sse (7292.000 MB/sec) [3.394520] device-mapper: dm-raid45: initialized v0.2594b Done. Begin: Running/scripts/init-premount ……. Done. Begin: Mounting root file system……. Begin: Running/scripts/local-top….. Done. Begin: Waiting for root file system……… [7.074334] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct Access Generic- Multi-Card 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS [7.074981] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [7.082098] sd 6:0:0:0 [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk Done. Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: -Boot args (cat/proc/cmdline) -check rootdelay=. (did the system waite long enough?) -missing modules (cat/proc/modules; 1s/dev) Alert!/dev/disk/by-uuid/697e2545-7c45-4bde-ae13-b4b7199e2dc2 does not exist. Droppings to a shell! BusyBox va.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13-1ubuntu7) built-in shell (ash) Enter ‘help’for a list of built-in commands (initranfs) ****end of error message(s)*** Kindly help With regards, Hem regards ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
