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no boot loader after install
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Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:30 pmby electrodad
Hi,
I recently installed a new 1TB SATA hard drive in my tower and have been attempting to install UE2.5 When I restart out of the live boot session it reboots into a black screen with a message " no active partition found" and stops there. Is there a cure? Can I repair this install without going through everything again. Many thanks!
Re: no boot loader after install
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Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:21 amby billhedrick
Did you install this along side of any other OS? I find that Win 7 is kinda protective of its' turf. Also is this your only drive? Something I did that solved the problem I had with win7 was to change the boot order in my BIOS so that my Ultimate Edition drive loads first. The other thing you should do is to dload an .iso of SuperGrubDisk. A powerful tool that can fix a lot of boot issues.
Re: no boot loader after install
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Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:22 pmby electrodad
I found that grub was not loaded so I did the aptget to install after tried the below, but it did not work. This is a SATA 1 TB fairly new drive. I found a older iso of super grub but I could not get it to work for me like the tutorials . <HELP!
its kicking my tail I hate it when a computer does that.
grub-install /dev/sdb1
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
sed: can't read /boot/grub/device.map: No such file or directory
grep: /boot/grub/device.map: No such file or directory
/dev/sdb1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
Re: no boot loader after install
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Wed Mar 03, 2010 1:13 amby cowboy
Give us some details on the HD...and system specs..on your computer...
Is it a Seagate HD...?
Just asking...
P.S...welcome to Ultimate Edition..
Re: no boot loader after install
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Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:44 amby Moebius
cowboy wrote:Give us some details on the HD...and system specs..on your computer...
Is it a Seagate HD...?
Just asking...
P.S...welcome to Ultimate Edition..
And also, as asked above, is this your only Hard drive in the PC - or is this the second Hard Drive?
Cheers.
Re: no boot loader after install
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Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:47 amby billhedrick
that's a good point, while multiple hard drives are very common, I have 4 in my system, they can make booting more complex
Re: no boot loader after install
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Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:56 pmby Admin-Amir
Hello electrodad.
Here is something to try for you.boot_info_script is a bash script which searches all hard drives attached to the computer for information related to booting and displays it in a convenient format. Its primary use is for troubleshooting booting problems.
How to use the boot info script
* Boot into any Linux based operating system, LiveCD or LiveUSB with an Internet connection.
* Download the Boot Info Script-
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/ * Open a terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal in Gnome) and type
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sudo bash [path/to/the/download_folder]/boot_info_script*.sh
For example if you downloaded the file to the desktop, use
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sudo bash ~/Desktop/boot_info_script*.sh
* You will now have the file RESULTS.txt in the same directory as the script. But if the script is inside a system directory (like /usr or /etc) RESULTS.txt will be in the home directory.
* If you already have an existing RESULTS.txt, subsequent files will be called RESULTS1.txt, RESULTS2.txt,...
* Open RESULTS.txt in your favorite text editor.
* If you came here from a Linux forum, paste the content of RESULTS.txt into your next post. Make sure to use the appropriate formating. For example in the Ubuntu forums click on the code tags (the symbol #) before pasting RESULTS.txt.