After reading the other "grub" entries from the post installation forum for 13.04 (RR) I'm requesting help to sort it.
I decided to give 13.04 a go and had a 8Gb usb drive with the live CD installed on it, to install on a 500Gb external drive.
The install went well and fairly fast. I rebooted (changed boot from usb sandisk(8gb) to usb samsung(500gb), waited and got grub rescue prompt...
Not knowing what to do I consulted here after resetting to boot from the live CD again.
I read some, then realised I may completely break grub if I don't set the pointers right so took advice to install boot-repair (after adding the repo's for it) Followed the instructions and "It" reset the MBR on sda2 and sde1 and installed the latest 12.04-kernel(51) too (I was surprised) .
Went to reboot to the 500gb drive and I got a grub screen...
versions (49 or 48) were in the "Previous Linux versions" part of grub screen
Trying to boot from any of the lower 3 "Kubuntu GNU/Linux" selections of above gave
which returns one to the grub menu.
Keeping in mind that I'd booted into grub from the 500gb drive I tried loading the 12.04 kernel with success it opened it from its internal 320gb Hitachi drive. So I retried to run boot-repair but it wsn't installed on the 12.04 install so I added it installed it and re-ran it when I said I wanted to fix sde MBR it said I had to do it from 13.04 install (I assumed Lived CD) so I rebooted to live usb and ran boot-repair with the sde drive "only" selected and followed its prompts, then rebooted to the 500gb drive with same errors as first install.
When I boot from the 320gb drive with 12.04 it also has the same grub screen as above (I am aware I told boot-repair the first time to do that)
I'd like to set the external 500gb drive with 13.04 as the only OS choice for that grub when the bios is set to boot from that drive whilst the internal 360gb drive with 12.04 loaded only sees 12.04 as the option. Is that possible?
Some pointers would be very much appreciated
I decided to give 13.04 a go and had a 8Gb usb drive with the live CD installed on it, to install on a 500Gb external drive.
The install went well and fairly fast. I rebooted (changed boot from usb sandisk(8gb) to usb samsung(500gb), waited and got grub rescue prompt...
Code:
error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found. grub rescue>_
I read some, then realised I may completely break grub if I don't set the pointers right so took advice to install boot-repair (after adding the repo's for it) Followed the instructions and "It" reset the MBR on sda2 and sde1 and installed the latest 12.04-kernel(51) too (I was surprised) .
Went to reboot to the 500gb drive and I got a grub screen...
Code:
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-51-generic Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-51-generic (recovery mode) Previous Linux versions Kubuntu GNU/Linux --class kubntu --classgnu-linux --class gnu --cl Kubuntu GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.8.0-19-generic' --class kubntu --cla Kubuntu GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.8.0-19-generic (recovery mode)' --c
Trying to boot from any of the lower 3 "Kubuntu GNU/Linux" selections of above gave
Code:
error: you need to load a kernel first press any key to continue
Keeping in mind that I'd booted into grub from the 500gb drive I tried loading the 12.04 kernel with success it opened it from its internal 320gb Hitachi drive. So I retried to run boot-repair but it wsn't installed on the 12.04 install so I added it installed it and re-ran it when I said I wanted to fix sde MBR it said I had to do it from 13.04 install (I assumed Lived CD) so I rebooted to live usb and ran boot-repair with the sde drive "only" selected and followed its prompts, then rebooted to the 500gb drive with same errors as first install.
Code:
error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found. grub rescue>_
I'd like to set the external 500gb drive with 13.04 as the only OS choice for that grub when the bios is set to boot from that drive whilst the internal 360gb drive with 12.04 loaded only sees 12.04 as the option. Is that possible?
Some pointers would be very much appreciated
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