MBR GRUB messed up

[Snowhog]

Re: MBR GRUB messed up

Now, it will be interesting to see what happens when I install the new PCLOS on the other partition. It uses GRUB also.
Fingers crossed

When you get to the point where you are asked where to install grub, point to the partition you installed PCLOS to and you should be fine.

[eppoh]

Re: MBR GRUB messed up

How wierd... I left the house while the install was running. When I came back I expected to see the Grub script waiting for me. Instead, there was a box said installation complete.

I restarted and all was well. Everything where it should be, including PCLOS, which works fine.

However , when I try to boot into Kubuntu, X will not start. Several error messages about command not found., hit control D to restart X server. Instead I typed halt, and instead of halting, it boots into Kubuntu with X running??

[Snowhog]

Re: MBR GRUB messed up

When in Kubuntu, perform a normal logout, logout, restart to cleanly reboot your PC. See if you can reenter Kubuntu without the problems.

[eppoh]

Re: MBR GRUB messed up

Tried that. Same result

[Qqmike]

Re: MBR GRUB messed up

So, to be clear, here,

(1) your GRUB boot works as you want it to?

and

(2) you can boot into Kubuntu, but you have to do your halt-dance to do so?
and then everything is OK in Kubuntu?

Right?

(btw, it may also work to press Enter and then Ctrl-D to get past the error message)

If this is correct, then we need an X-guy here to help out.
Or, you can do the X-configure thing.

I'm working from a live Kubuntu flash drive at the moment, and my files are not handy (unless you want me to try to mount them in mid-sentence and...), but everyone knows the links:

dibl wrote a How-to about getting started without a GUI (but you seem to not have quite that situation?).
And herman at hermanzone bigpond has a whole section on configuring the X server. You might try the safe VESA and 1024x768 option and see what haappens.
Or, these guys can give you that one-liner X server config command to try.

[eppoh]

Re: MBR GRUB messed up

enter and Ctrl D does get it to boot. I noticed that the file system check fails during boot up, which preceeds the error messages I got.

Any way to get it to boot without the enter Ctrl D drama?

[eppoh]

Re: MBR GRUB messed up

Although gutsy would boot, I found several problems with it while there. Update was giving me problems, as was X and the hal daemon.

Decided just to re-install over the same partition. Did that and X still gave be problems, so I went back to 7.04 and all is well. I will upgrade soon as I did before.

Thanks for the assistance.

[Qqmike]

Re: MBR GRUB messed up

One more thing, as it may come up again, too --
What you describe sounds like one of the UUIDs for a partition might have been changed (after reformatting or something). That's when lots of the "Press Ctrl-D to bypass" seem to pop up. If so, it will tell you right there close by which UUID it's having problems with.

[eppoh]

Re: MBR GRUB messed up

You are correct. There was a UUID problem. It also changed the id of the PCLOS partition from hda5 to sda5, which gave a kernel panic when I tried to boot.