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error: no such device:
this is about the 4th time i've tried to reinstall linux ubuntu with no results. i am attempting to have a dual boot system with ubuntu and windows 7. i have a gateway lx series with an intel core 2 quad Q8200 processor, nvidia gt120 with 1gig of dedicated ram, 8 gigs of ram. after going through the entire installation process, after it tells me to restart and kicks out the CD, before i get to select os or anything, i get this message:
error: no such device: 14150b0a-9486-4824-94c3-8d93cfa1afa4.
grub rescue>
What do i do? i want to have a decent computer to at least work with. i can load from the live cd again, but that's kind of a pain because none of my settings stay.
Thanks in advance for your time guys.
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You'll see there which partition your linux system is in
In /boo/grub/menu.lst you'll see something like this:
Change it to look like:
Where sdxX is the partition we found out before
Although I must warn you that I do not know for sure if Ubuntu 10.04 comes with Grub2 and therefore I'm not sure these instructions are gonna work. They are worth a try though
Marc is correct about the steps and how to track infromation, you can find an example of a grub2 custom menu entry on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Custom Menu Entries, if you can piece together the infromation from Mac and the link I provided then you should be able to fix the issue.
1. turn on pc
2. wait for pc to mess up
3. bang head against desk repeatedly until you can no longer read error: no such device: ######
4. take half a bottle of asprin with a handle of irish whiskey.
see what i'm getting at? again, thanks guys.
is there a way to do instant messaging on linux.com? i think that would make life a bit easier.
i found using sudo fdisk -l gives me a whole bunch of info that i dont know what to do with.
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512=8225280 bytes
sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes/ 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes/ 512 bytes
disk identifier: 0xf4dcae3e
Device Boot start end blocks id system
/dev/sda1 1 1913 15366141 27 unknown
/dev/sda2 * 1914 77826 609763324 7 HPFS/NTFS
i hope one of you guys can make sense of this. it's kind of jibberish to me at this point. i'm gonna go back to step 3 i think.
It seems the problem was due to he installed linux on an external hard drive and not in the regular hard drive. That seems to be the reason why the bootloader couldn't find the device.
We used our IM talk to give him some basic instructions on linux command line and we finally got to install fedora 12 on his system. It seems there was a problem with the ubuntu installer as it couldn't find his hard drive (strange because Gparted did :S). We chose to go for fedora as it seemed to work right out of the box
He also had some trouble with his Windows installation. Nothing a reinstall could not solve, you know the deal with Windows
In the end, everything seems to be working fine
Correct me if I'm wrong in something rj98942!
Don't worry about the music, you can access your files from fedora (probably not the other way around! from windows you won't see the linux files).
That is:
1-partition in ntfs
2-partition in ext3/ext4/xfs/reiser3/reiser4/whatever (suggest ext4)
Plugging that in to windows will let you access the ntfs partition and in Fedora you'll have access to both partitions(reading for sure to the ntfs partition, writting...it depends ).
To the bootscreen:
You need to edit the line "Timeout 0" and set it to a proper value in /boot/grub/grub.conf
System-->Administration-->Date & Time-->Time Zone and uncheck the box that says System clock uses UTC.
This a known problem when dual booting Linux & Windows.
when i open ubuntu after 3 days.. it say nedd to update n i press the update button .. and it say need toe reboot n i reboot..
after reboot it say error: no such device: 72809b11-c3be-44f1-8c72-68944a0cdba8.....
i have try all ypur commands which u have post earlier n many more from other website.. its still can boot..
n it effect my window 7 hardisk too..
wat can i do.. please help.. im newbie in linux.. i wanna try to learn it cause it fun n nicer then window.. n im 19 years old from malaysia.
please help me...
when i open ubuntu after 3 days.. it say nedd to update n i press the update button .. and it say need toe reboot n i reboot..
after reboot it say error: no such device: 72809b11-c3be-44f1-8c72-68944a0cdba8.....
i have try all ypur commands which u have post earlier n many more from other website.. its still can boot..
n it effect my window 7 hardisk too..
wat can i do.. please help.. im newbie in linux.. i wanna try to learn it cause it fun n nicer then window.. n im 19 years old from malaysia.
please help me...