Hi all
I just reinstalled Ubunto 12.04 on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop, on top of Windows7
My hard disk is an older IDE drive of 320 Gb which, as I learned on a previous installation, has problems seeing disk spaces bigger than 137 Gb (my old laptop doesn't support newer SATA drives which I think do not present this kind of problems).
Nevertheless I chose to let ubuntu installer decide where to install ubuntu. The installation went apparently well but...when I rebooted
ZAP! I get an "error: out of disk" message and after that the grub2 prompt emerges.
I used boot-repair to see if the problem could be fixed. I had to run it twice.
The first time run it with the general process, and it apparently solved the problem or so it said: (here is the result: (http://paste.ubuntu.com/6723853) but upon rebooting...ZAP again! same error message.
I rerun boot-repair, going into the advanced options and marked the ATA disk check box, and this time too it said that the problem was solved
(with the following check list: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6723859).
Indeed when I first rebooted it was all right, well almost, I first got an "error: can't find device" (or something similar), but after a few seconds the dual-loader boot menu appeared and could normally login into ubuntu.
After that, I downloaded lots of updates and finally shut the system down..and went to bed :KS
This morning I got again the same initial problem: error: our of disk, and I wonder why.
Could it have been caused by the fact that I downloaded so much system SW upgrades, so that what had been fixed has been manipulated again?
On the other hand my HD, as per when it was firstly installed Win7, had only one C: drive with some 98Gb of space, where Win7 was installed. Being aware that this problem could arise with my machine I hoped that the installer would install ubuntu in the same partition as where Win7 was installed so that the boot sector for ubuntu would be closer to the area that the BIOS can recognize (not sure if I am using the right terminology here), but I problably misread the instructions I had found in the ubuntu installation page
If we take a look at the image attached given by GParted and the pastebin from boot-repair, Ubuntu seems to have been installed on sda5 which is out of reach of the bios.
So....what can I do at this point to fix this?
Do I need to reinstall Ubuntu and specifiy to create a boot partition whitin sda2, and how? or what else?
Any help appreciated
All the best
Antonio
I just reinstalled Ubunto 12.04 on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop, on top of Windows7
My hard disk is an older IDE drive of 320 Gb which, as I learned on a previous installation, has problems seeing disk spaces bigger than 137 Gb (my old laptop doesn't support newer SATA drives which I think do not present this kind of problems).
Nevertheless I chose to let ubuntu installer decide where to install ubuntu. The installation went apparently well but...when I rebooted
ZAP! I get an "error: out of disk" message and after that the grub2 prompt emerges.
I used boot-repair to see if the problem could be fixed. I had to run it twice.
The first time run it with the general process, and it apparently solved the problem or so it said: (here is the result: (http://paste.ubuntu.com/6723853) but upon rebooting...ZAP again! same error message.
I rerun boot-repair, going into the advanced options and marked the ATA disk check box, and this time too it said that the problem was solved
(with the following check list: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6723859).
Indeed when I first rebooted it was all right, well almost, I first got an "error: can't find device" (or something similar), but after a few seconds the dual-loader boot menu appeared and could normally login into ubuntu.
After that, I downloaded lots of updates and finally shut the system down..and went to bed :KS
This morning I got again the same initial problem: error: our of disk, and I wonder why.
Could it have been caused by the fact that I downloaded so much system SW upgrades, so that what had been fixed has been manipulated again?
On the other hand my HD, as per when it was firstly installed Win7, had only one C: drive with some 98Gb of space, where Win7 was installed. Being aware that this problem could arise with my machine I hoped that the installer would install ubuntu in the same partition as where Win7 was installed so that the boot sector for ubuntu would be closer to the area that the BIOS can recognize (not sure if I am using the right terminology here), but I problably misread the instructions I had found in the ubuntu installation page
If we take a look at the image attached given by GParted and the pastebin from boot-repair, Ubuntu seems to have been installed on sda5 which is out of reach of the bios.
So....what can I do at this point to fix this?
Do I need to reinstall Ubuntu and specifiy to create a boot partition whitin sda2, and how? or what else?
Any help appreciated
All the best
Antonio