I have an existing 3 TB hard drive that I use for Windows files (non-OS related). I shrunk it with Disk Manager in Windows 7 to leave 128 GB of free space.
Then I booted the Ubuntu 13.04 live cd from my USB drive and selected the manual partitioning installation option. I selected the hard drive (which is apparently seen as my primary drive) and created partitions in the remaining free space as follows:
http://imgur.com/a/mCO5P
(I don't know what's up with the sizes, it seems to subtract 1 MB from the size I specify)
I then selected /dev/sda to install the bootloader in and started the installation process. It seemed to be successful and asked me at the end if I wanted to restart.
I restarted the PC and selected this hard drive from the BIOS boot menu, but it stops at "Loading Operating System". What am I doing wrong?
Edit: Also, here's some output from commands I tried:
Edit 2: I just ran boot repair and it asked me if sda is a removeable disk. I selected No, because it's an internal hard drive. Then it said that /boot was detected.
I clicked recommended repair and it gave me this:
"GPT detected. Please create a BIOS-boot partition (>1MB, unformatted filesystem, bios_grub_flag). This can be performed via tools such as Gparted. Then try again."
Full boot info: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5720036/
Then I booted the Ubuntu 13.04 live cd from my USB drive and selected the manual partitioning installation option. I selected the hard drive (which is apparently seen as my primary drive) and created partitions in the remaining free space as follows:
http://imgur.com/a/mCO5P
(I don't know what's up with the sizes, it seems to subtract 1 MB from the size I specify)
I then selected /dev/sda to install the bootloader in and started the installation process. It seemed to be successful and asked me at the end if I wanted to restart.
I restarted the PC and selected this hard drive from the BIOS boot menu, but it stops at "Loading Operating System". What am I doing wrong?
Edit: Also, here's some output from commands I tried:
Code:
> fdisk -l /dev/sda
Cannot open /dev/sda
> sudo grub-install --recheck --no-floppy --root-directory=/ /dev/sda
Path `/boot/grub` is not readable by GRUB on boot. Installation is impossible. Aborting.I clicked recommended repair and it gave me this:
"GPT detected. Please create a BIOS-boot partition (>1MB, unformatted filesystem, bios_grub_flag). This can be performed via tools such as Gparted. Then try again."
Full boot info: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5720036/