Error Installing Ubuntu 11.10
communities company blog Stack Exchange Inbox Reputation and Badges sign up log in tour help Tour Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Ask Ubuntu Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Grub installation fatal error in Ubuntu 11.10 installation up vote 0 down vote favorite 1 I have winxp and win7 on my HD and have just installed the Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop on the HD too.I decided to install boot files on a /boot partition and also install grub not at the MBR and install EasyBCD as a bootloader manager in win7. Here's my hard disk partitions: /dev/sda1 winxp(ntfs) /dev/sda5 win7(ntfs) /dev/sda6 my other ntfs partition /dev/sda7 /boot /dev/sda8 swap /dev/sda9 / an i select /dev/sda7 as device for boot loader installation. I followed steps from this article: http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/22/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-11-04/ but i get a fatal error on installing grub at the final step of ubuntu installation that said: Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda7 Executing 'grub-install/dev/sda7' failed This is fatal error how can i solve it? should i reinstall ubuntu or just reinstall grub? is it a bug of ubuntu 11.10 ? can i reinstall grub from a knoppix live cd? I don't have ubuntu live cd. thank you for helping. 11.10 grub2 share|improve this question asked Dec 21 '11 at 16:14 hd. 802499 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 2 down vote I got the same error message when I accidentally specified a partition (like you did, /dev/sda7) instead of the drive (/dev/sda). The bottom line is that you may have to install Grub in the MBR of /dev/sda and let Grub manage the booting of Linux and Windows. The article you referenced mentions this at the bottom. To do this: sudo grub-install /dev/sda I don't think you'll have to update grub, but it can't hurt, since it will simply rebuild grub.cfg and ensure that the Windows OSes are in the Grub menu.
communities company blog Stack Exchange Inbox Reputation and Badges sign up log in tour help Tour Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Ask Ubuntu Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Invalid Argument Error while installing Ubuntu 11.10 up vote 2 down vote favorite I got this error when http://askubuntu.com/questions/89522/grub-installation-fatal-error-in-ubuntu-11-10-installation I was installing ubuntu directly from CD choosing the option 'inside windows' [XP] , I had tested several times on C drive [30 GB free space] as well as on other drives with minimum 20 GB free space. how can I fix this problem ? installation windows share|improve this question edited Apr 9 '12 at 1:29 Ringtail 12k1239167 asked Feb 19 '12 at 6:55 easy coder 261720 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 3 down vote http://askubuntu.com/questions/105520/invalid-argument-error-while-installing-ubuntu-11-10 accepted you used wubi app to that this program very good but still have problem with somebody i'm one of them try another partition see that first may help you https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide then do that 1.with any program partition tools liked parted magic or acrions or other make unallocated free space partition take al least 5 giga free space 2.create any partition in that new unallocated space and make it fat32 not ntfs because ntfs make problem sometimes 3.make this new partition primary 4.format it with slow format from partiton program or if you hard drive old you can do that with this command in cmd format X: x refer to new hard drive 5.after that make defragmentation for it 6.now try to install it if problem continue change step number 2 and make it ntfs if still change step number 3 and make it logical i know that wubi must be found to don't do any of above any install ubuntu like any software in windows but as i said it still have problem with it so it's many solution that other advise us to do and you can search in google about wubi problem to see that and the best is install ubuntu with default way as any operting system or install it in virtualbox and i see the second idea is best beacuse you will can use windows and linux in same time share|improve this answer an
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Contact About Search for: Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu 11.10 How to install Ubuntu 11.10 : From USB Drive or CD September 11, 2011 Ramesh Jha 31 Comments Ubuntu 11.10 (code named as Oneiric Ocelot) beta 1 has released and final (stable version of 11.10) released a week ago. If you're a absolute beginner - i.e you've very little (negligible) or no experience with Linux distributions then this post might help you in getting started with Ubuntu as it contains step by step instruction for installing Ubuntu 11.10 on your Desktop/Laptop/Netbook. The instructions given in this post assume that you want to install ubuntu as a dual boot with Windows 7 (or XP/Vista or whatever you've already installed), which is recommended for absolute beginners as if any problem occurs with Ubuntu (or you are not feeling comfortable with Ubuntu, although that's not probably going to happen) then still you would be able to access Windows, but if you want something else like - removing windows and install Ubuntu or erase whole disk and install Ubuntu on a new computer - then most of the steps would be same - few things will change that I've pointed out (Jump to steps). Ubuntu 11.10 beta 1 has released with a lot of surprises/changes, new features and some improvements in the unity desktop. One of the biggest change is that Ubuntu 11.10 uses Gnome 3, unity also uses Gnome 3 so it means you can install gnome shell on ubuntu 11.10 - in few steps without breaking the unity i.e it will support Gnome 3 without any problem. (although there may be some bugs right now as it's beta release). Installing Ubuntu 11.10 - step by step guide Ubuntu 11.10 can be installed in many ways - one of the easiest method is using wubi installer, but it doesn't provide much control options so we would go with advanced installation..and one more thing - it's not as difficult as it appears to be, just follow the instructions - if you've any doubt then drop a co