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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:24:46 +0100 jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Rob Beard writes: > > jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Alan Pope writes: > >>> 2009/6/8 JOHN DAVEY <johndavey303@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >>> > >>>> ...well I thought all was well but I seem to be having > >>>> difficulties with installing to the harddrive. The Live CD is > >>>> working fine but it won't write the system to the HDD. I've > >>>> tried a few times and it goes through the install process > >>>> completely and it all looks like it's installing for all intents > >>>> and puropses but at boot there is no system?.... > >>> How many hard disks are in the computer? If more than one, what > >>> operating systems are on each one? > >>> When you say "is no system" what happens? Do you get a blank > >>> screen on boot or some kind of error message? > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Al. > >>> > >>> > >> I get a command line screen. It's GRUB the bootloader I think? > >> THat describes itself as a leightweight BASH. I have no idea what > >> to do when there. I have pulled up the 'HEPL' but it isn't > >> much...help really..... JOn. > >> > > Sounds to me like it is booting so far and falling back to > > Busybox. Do you get the Ubuntu splash screen come up at all when > > you try and boot from the hard disk? (I believe it should come up > > after Grub but if it can't mount the hard drive after loading the > > kernel it will leave you at the Busybox prompt). > > What is the model of the laptop? > > Rob > ...no, no splash screen. It's a Toshiba Satellite Pro.... I had what sounds like a very similar situation recently with on of my 8.04.2 systems. Essentially what had happened is that the partition's UUID was incorrect - GRUB was passing control over to the "initial RAM disk" (initrd) and that was loading (which includes busybox), but it couldn't find "init" (it should normally be found on the partition that is mounted as /). I resolved it by booting from the live CD, finding out the UUID of the partition that should be mounted as /, editing the menu.lst and fstab entries accordingly and rebooting. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html