K 9.10 won't boot after bug fix

[jess]

On boot up it goes to the grub menu waits for my input.(didn't do that before it was working fine.) When I select the distro to boot, it goes thru the splash screen, then hangs after "Alert /dev/disk/ by uuid/6bc939b-aa30-480c-b395-7cb51464a79d does not exist: dropping to a shell .......
(Intramfs)
Any one know how to fix this?
Thanks,
jess

[askrieger]

Re: K 9.10 won't boot after bug fix

I don't know how to fix your problem, but I can tell you what your error message means. Specifically, GRUB (the Grand Unified Bootloader) is the piece of software that gives you the choice of starting windoze (if you still have it contaminating your machine) or any one of the versions of the linux distros you might have installed. In order to start your machine GRUB looked in a directory called /boot/grub/ for a file named "menu.list".* That file told it to load Linux from a device known (only to the operating system) by its UUID, which is a brilliant software innovation (look it up on Wikipedia) that prevents humans from identifying peripherals by name. Obviously, your problem is that the device in question (almost certainly the hard-drive partition on which you installed Linux) is not available. There are two possibilities: either the menu.list file is corrupted, or the device is broken.

* BTW, you are extremely fortunate that you are using a system that was upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic because if it were a fresh install of Karmic, you'd be using the new and improved(?) GRUB2 and you probably couldn't fix it at all.

[jess]

Re: K 9.10 won't boot after bug fix

Thank you very much for your reply. You did help with the info. I did know some of what you said. I've been using Kubuntu for abt two or three years. I still have a lot to learn. Ijust don't understand why a bug fix would mess up grub. I'm using my test system now, with three distos and win 7 and the bug fixes didn't mess it up. Iknow the hard drive is still ok. Anyway if I fix it I'll let you know. Thanks again for the post.Have a good weekend.
Jess

[jess]

Re: K 9.10 won't boot after bug fix(resolved)

For all who are curious. I did fix the problem. I installed the same distro again on another partition and it fixed the grub issue. So all is fine. Both distro's boot and work fine. Just an FYI. Enjoy,
Jess

[lmilano]

Re: K 9.10 won't boot after bug fix

Thanks for the update. I am sorry things broke with just an upgrade, that's painful! I suspect it has something to do with grub-2 itself (it is a little bit experimental at this point). Another user is reporting a similar issue with netbook 9.10!

[GreyGeek]

Re: K 9.10 won't boot after bug fix

A friend came over for Thanksgiving dinner and brought his HP dv laptop!

I had made a LiveUSB stick using the KK 9.10 gold release, added FireFox, some applets, etc. to customize it. His LiveUSB was the second time I had created a KK LiveUSB.

He saw my new shiny KDE 4.3.3 desktop with the Network and CWP applets and wanted his stick upgraded to KDE 4.3.3 too. His HP dv laptop has ONLY VISTA on it. (His Gateway m675prr has only KK).

We booted his stick, added the ppa lauchpad repositories and gpg keys and did the update, dist-upgrade. It went smooth. Rebooted. Got the (Intramfs) shell. I knew it was coming. During the upgrade a blue and red console screen appeared asking me on which drive I'd like to install Grub2. /dev/sda or /dev/sdb. My assumption was that /dev/sda was the USB stick and /dev/sdb was the HD with ntfs on it. If I made a mistake I'd blow his VISTA and make him made at me. I played it safe and didn't put grub on either. Knowing it would crash I rebooted just to see what msgs would appear. Now I know.

I am going to recreate the LiveUSB stick...