Help Me Enjoy [Install] Kubuntu Please

[logan01]

I cleaned a known good usb and using UNebootin, I transferred the .img to the usb. It didn't show up in the startup / boot options menu. I'm guessing files, images, whatever they're called need to meet criteria suitable for booting and evidently this copy doesn't. I need a good rEFInd.

[logan01]

We sure don't want to! This could go from complicated to impossible. grub> prompts use to be fun in GRUB Legacy; not always so with the newer GRUB versions.

Much easier to just get ANY bootable rEFInd or Boot Repair going.

Ok. I shall return from the possessed pc to this lovely windows 7 pc.

[Qqmike]

Then it has grub>
If i hit return it creates another grub>
Can we work with this somehow? If not, I will delete the ubuntu stuff from the usb and "reload" the .img, try to boot to it, etc.

We sure don't want to! This could go from complicated to impossible. grub> prompts use to be fun in GRUB Legacy; not always so with the newer GRUB versions.

Much easier to just get ANY bootable rEFInd or Boot Repair going.

[logan01]

I used another usb which had ubuntu live (not my kubuntu usb) on it to transfer the .img file via unibootin or whatever it's called. When I did that it should have wiped ubuntu files off. It recognized the flashdrive but asked if I wanted to install/try ubuntu. Crap. I hit escape. It now shows the following: gnu grub on like a title line
Mimimal bash-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions.

Then it has grub>
If i hit return it creates another grub>
Can we work with this somehow? If not, I will delete the ubuntu stuff from the usb and "reload" the .img, try to boot to it, etc.

EDIT: The title like text is:

GNU GRUB version 2.02 beta2-9ubuntu1.3
between 2.02 and beta is a horizontal curly symbol; like a stretched backward S.

[Qqmike]

When you re-boot, you must enter (by pressing the magic key during POST, yours may be F10?) "BIOS" setup (i.e., firmware setup) to see if the firmware sees it as a UEFI-bootable medium.

[logan01]

I'm gonna do the .img to another known good usb and try to boot it. The pc recognized the kubuntu usb.

[logan01]

I tried twice from 2 different usb ports to boot to my usb. It doesn't even show up. I'm now gonna try the kubuntu usb to see if it even shows up to boot to.

[Qqmike]

The rEFInd will get you booted INTO Kubuntu -- it will boot Kubuntu for you, it works in its own "live session," and after you get booted into Kubuntu, you will then not be in a live session, you will be in a real session.

Boot Repair, OTOH, will work in its own live session to try to re-install GRUB2-EFI to your Kubuntu OS filesystem--it will actually install GRUB files. Then when the live session ends, you eject the Boot Repair medium and hopefully boot into your newly-fixed Kubuntu.

(Let's NOT do this, but fyi, you can work in your own live session to re-install those GRUB files, as in my how-to:
https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...l=1#post374017 -- Boot Repair does essentailly the same kind of work as my how-to shows YOU how to do in YOUR live session )

[logan01]

After you boot into your K(U)buntu, open Konsole (K > Applications > System > terminal (Konsole)), then:

type
sudo grub-install
press Enter
then type
sudo update-grub
and press Enter

Re-boot to test it. The update-grub builds a new and (hopefully) complete boot menu showing ALL your operating systems installed that GRUB can boot, including Windows.

though you said I can't do this in the live version which is all I have? Hang loose. Let me see what happens with the rEFInd boot.

[Qqmike]

Additionally or instead of, you want me to try this in LIVE? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

Trying Boot Repair is * always * a good option, and is mentioned above somewhere. It might fix your GRUB, but you got your rEFInd flash drive, it should get you in OK, then see my post above about re-installing GRUB at Konsole.

[Qqmike]

After you boot into your K(U)buntu, open Konsole (K > Applications > System > terminal (Konsole)), then:

type
sudo grub-install
press Enter
then type
sudo update-grub
and press Enter

Re-boot to test it. The update-grub builds a new and (hopefully) complete boot menu showing ALL your operating systems installed that GRUB can boot, including Windows.

[logan01]

Additionally or instead of, you want me to try this in LIVE? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

[Qqmike]

Remember, to boot with this flash drive, you probably have to re-boot, enter UEFI firmware (BIOS) setup, see the UEFI flash drive and select it.

[Qqmike]

See what it offers you on its boot menu. You should see Windows. You should also see something looking like Kubuntu, Ubuntu, or most probably a kernel, like vmlinuz-3.13.0-63-generic[or signed]. Highlight it by using the up/down arrow keys, and press Enter and you should right into Kubuntu.

[logan01]

I reckon I boot to it, then what?