[NBLUG/talk] Installation problem

Alan Bloom n1al at sonic.net
Mon Oct 7 22:13:21 PDT 2013


Thanks again Michael.

 > Feel like going on with this so late in the evening?

Actually I need to get to bed pretty soon.  (I'm definitely not a Unix 
guru going to bed so soon. Plus I don't have a beard.  :=)

Is there a source where I can study up on grub and how to install/use 
it?  I can then tackle that tomorrow.

Alan


On 10/7/2013 10:07 PM, Michael Dooley wrote:
> On 10/07/2013 02:36 PM, Alan Bloom wrote:
>
>>> Sounds as if grub might have been installed on your thumb drive. Are you
>>> also offered the opportunity to boot to windows in grub or do you just
>>> boot into Ubuntu?
>>
>> No, if I boot without the thumb drive I only get Windows and if I boot
>> with the thumb drive I get the "Unetbootin" screen.  If I leave that at
>> the default it boots up Ubuntu.  I can tell it must have booted from the
>> thumb drive because there is no logon screen.
>>
>>  From Ubuntu I can see the Windows files and directories in one
>> partition and the Ubuntu files and directories in the other.
>>
>> At least this time I was able to get the computer to turn off by
>> shutting down the normal way.
>>
>> If in the Unetbootin screen I select "Boot from first hard drive" I get
>> some kind of command-line screen.  If I type "exit" the computer hangs
>> up with this on the screen:
>>
>> http://n1al.net/music/boot_hd.png
>>
>> Alan
>
> The fact that your machine boots directly to Windows without the thumb
> drive seems to suggest that grub was not installed to the master boot
> record on your (only?) hard drive.
>
> However, when in the unetbootin (flash drive) menu and selecting "Boot
> from first hard drive" and then getting a busybox screen suggests
> something else - what, I'm not sure.
>
> My gut feeling is that grub was not installed to your hard drive but
> somewhere else. And according to most recent message, removing the thumb
> drive renders Ubuntu useless so therefore, you are not actually booting
> into your hard drive install.
>
> You need to (1) install grub to your hard drive, presumably sda. And
> then you need to (2) update grub so that it detects both your Windows
> partition and your Ubuntu partition. Feel like going on with this so
> late in the evening?
>


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