thanks Nadeem, I will try this and respond
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Nadeem M. Khan nadeem.m.khan@gmail.comwrote:
- One machine has existing windows. It had ubuntu 8.04 . I deleted the
partition so I could install ubuntu 9.10 . Now the machine refuses to recognise usb stick, usb CDROM so I cannt even boot from them.
Boot from the windows CD using the conventional optical drive and enter recovery console. type "fixboot /mbr". Reboot.
- Other laptop : i thought I will not touch the system that is working
fine( ubuntu 9.04) So I used USB CDROM and ubuntu 9.10 disc on it to
create
a usb stick for 9.10. I did boot from USB CD and chose the stick to
install
and chose not to install grub as I wanted only one OS on the stick and thought grub will be redundant. (While installing it had asked location
of
grub on HD(0) etc and that was not relevant . I thought). So I happily
ended
the process disconnected USB CD ROM drive and restarted the laptop and
again
I got the sacry 'grub rescue >' prompt
Boot from Ubuntu, enter rescue mode, type grub-install /dev/hda (or sda or XXX depending on your partition layout.)
Regards, NMK. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers