Ubuntu 9.10 - Won't make a boot disk

[ad4mg]

Well, that's the way it's going to remain....booting from the internal disk using the super grub disk. I've searched around for getting a grub file on the external USB drive and, if the information was there it was buried amongst a bunch of linux stuff that I couldn't make heads nor tails of, and anyway, I've been at this for 5 hours now and I'm burnt out.

The external drive looks for all the world like a good linux system disk. Got an MBR, it's got a whole and intact filesystem...just guess it's missing a grub file? Dunno....

Perhaps the partition on the USB drive isn't flagged as a "boot" partition?

You could use GParted to check. It's usually under "System" , "Administration", and it may just be called "Partition Editor". If it isn't, it will have to be unmounted before you can change the properties of that partition.

I'll have to follow the sequence of events that resulted in your not being able to boot normally, Doug. I'll have to look at it a bit later when I have some time. This can be fixed!

[n2ize]

The whole world should switch over to Ada. Great error checking! Unbelievablly strong typing! Totally verbose coding! Totally inefficient image size and execution speed! Simple mistakes create copious verbiage in the error dump!

Sea-Lisp.

[W1GUH]

Finally


I got it to boot from the external disk. Dunno what I did...I just cleaned that disk and installed again. Didn't do anything differently, so I don't know what was wrong the first time.

Now I can install either Ubutu 9.10 or 9.04 with the internal HD that's in there now. Not too useful. The acid test is choosing between Windows or Ubuntu.

But, it's done....only took a whole day. Cheesh!

[W1GUH]

C'est fine!

Now I can boot windows from the internal disk and linux from the external drive. All done. Well, not really, I still have to upgrade the 9.04 to 9.10, but what the heck...that's easy compared to what I just went through.

I'm leaving it in a state where I have to use the Super Grub CD to boot linux. Maybe eventually I'll figure out how to get a grub file on the external disk, if that's even possible, but the way it is now I'm a little, or a lot more protected from blasting windows, and that's a good thing. There's no way I want to risk having to reinstall that.

Relaxin' time!