Error Loading Operating System Ubuntu 11.10
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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 Unix & Linux Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Unix & Linux Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems. 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 Unable to boot the operating system up vote 2 down vote favorite 1 I installed Lubuntu 11.10 and it run https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1397248 without problems. I decided to install Ubuntu 11.10 mini instead of Lubuntu 11.10. After the installation the operating system didn't boot. I only saw the black screen. I used sysresccd and tried to repair grub according to this guide and I tried solution 2. It didn't help. I tried to repair it with lilo. I remembered that at some time in the past I repaired mbr with lilo and everything was OK. After using the command: lilo -M /dev/sda mbr I restarted the laptop and a http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31032/unable-to-boot-the-operating-system message appeared (I don't remember what it said). I understood that I had to install grub again and repeated the procedure with sysresccd, which didn't help. EDIT: fdisk -l /dev/sda EDIT: content of /boot directory of sda1 partition EDIT: I used google and found this link. It seems that this is my problem. It was only sufficient to press ctrl+alt+F1 and Ubuntu started booting. After commenting the line containing vt.handoff in /etc/grub.d/10_linux everything was OK. How to close this question? boot grub2 mbr rescue lilo share|improve this question edited Dec 27 '13 at 1:07 hildred 3,68811233 asked Feb 6 '12 at 16:14 xralf 1,483134896 It will be much easier for someone to help you if you reboot the machine again and take note of the error message. –Teresa e Junior Feb 6 '12 at 17:18 the error message was something like "no operating system found". You won't get more information from it. I understood it that lilo cleared mbr, so I reinstalled grub. –xralf Feb 6 '12 at 17:35 Please boot from rescue-cd and post the output of fdisk -l /dev/sda. –Nils Feb 9 '12 at 21:18 @Nils See question edit –xralf Feb 10 '12 at 9:26 Can you post your /etc/fstab ? –Neel Basu Feb 10 '12 at 11:01 | show 7 more comments 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote Boot from a Live CD. Go to root prompt. #grub grub> root (hd0,0) //for first hard disk, first partition grub>
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 http://superuser.com/questions/363587/installing-xp-or-ubuntu-11-10-results-in-an-operating-system-not-found-error Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/11/12/create-a-bootable-usb-drive-the-easy-way-in-ubuntu-810/ developers or posting ads with us Super User Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Super User is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users. 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 error loading are voted up and rise to the top Installing XP or Ubuntu 11.10 results in an “Operating System not found” error up vote 0 down vote favorite I'm trying to install XP and Ubuntu on an RM tablet PC. I'm using an external DVD drive. I've tried installing XP using all of the default options. Got the above error. Booted in to the recovery console and tried error loading operating fixmbr and fixboot neither made any difference. I then tried installing Ubuntu with defaul options, got the same error. In both of the above scenarios I confirmed that the hard drive had the highest boot priority in the BIOS. I tried booting the the external CD drive unplugged and I confirmed that the partition was active. Any help would be great, Thanks, Joe boot tablet share|improve this question asked Dec 1 '11 at 18:37 user940516 47113 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote You want to install XP first then install UBUNTU it makes it easier. Ubuntu should recognize that XP is installed and try to configure Grub to recognize the Windows Partition. When it comes down to it GRUB is not pointing correctly to whatever partition is the boot partition for whatever OS you are trying to boost into. Grub documentation can be found here. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 If GRUB itself does not load you will need to reinstall or reconfigure grub. share|improve this answer edited Dec 1 '11 at 19:20 answered Dec 1 '11 at 18:46 anzenketh 1365 GRUB itself doesn't load. I'm going to try installing LILO or some
install Ubuntu on a system without a CD drive, my Eee PC, I created a bootable USB drive to run the graphical installer. The UNetbootin tool I used makes creating the USB system simple, but in Ubuntu 8.10 there's an even easier way. You'll need: The USB Startup Disk creator tool. It comes as a part of the default Ubuntu 8.10 desktop. I haven't seen any packages for older versions of Ubuntu yet, but I have have been able to install the 8.10 package in Ubuntu 8.04. A USB drive or memory card with a minimum of 700 MB of free space. An Ubuntu CD or Ubuntu CD ISO file. Launch the USB Startup Disk creator tool from System->Administration->Create a USB startup disk. Either insert your Ubuntu CD, or click Other and browse to your ISO file. (If the application doesn't recognize your CD, try clicking Other and then Cancel. This caused my CD to show up.) Plug in your USB drive or card. The application should recognize the drive immediately and check that there is enough free space. If you have multiple USB drives, select the one you want to use from the list. Finally, you can choose whether you want your USB system to be persistent between boots, or static like a live CD. Adjust the slider to choose how much space Ubuntu will have on the disk to expand to, or select the Discarded on shutdown option. Click Make Startup Disk, and wait while the USB system is created. Now you can boot from this drive on any system which supports USB boots. Booting from the USB drive is just like a CD; you'll have to select Try Ubuntu from the boot menu to load the desktop. If you allocated space for a persistent system, anything you install or change on the system will persist the next time you boot. I was able to boot my own SD card with persistent Ubuntu 8.10 on my Eee PC. Thanks to Xubuntu blog for pointing out this new utility. Enjoyed this post? Subscribe to Tombuntu's RSS feed. Related Posts Create a Bootable USB Drive or Memory Card Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on the Eee PC 901 Installing Ubuntu 9.04 on the Eee PC 901 Installing Ubuntu 11.10 on the Eee PC 901 Test KDE 4.1 Beta 1 with KDE4Daily 53 Responses to "Create a Bootable USB Drive the Easy Way in Ubuntu 8.10" HowtoMatrix » Create a Bootable USB Drive the Easy Way in Ubuntu 8.10 says: November 12, 2008 at 10:37 am [...] Read more at Tombuntu [...] Reply james says: November 12, 2008 at 10:37 am How does the boot-up time compare with the normal boot-up (installed on hard drive)? Reply Tom says: November 12, 2008 at 12:19 pm james: Boot-up is noticeably slower, but it proba