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Grant Sewell writes: > 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.<snip> >> >>> 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?<snip> .... 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? <snip> >> > 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.<snip> > 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. ...I can't seem to even navigate to 'fstab'. I just found what looked like a solution. THere is a program that writes the bootloader to a USB stick but it wouldn't complete the instillation. I tried three times! I have also tried to do the, supposed, install over choosing different options. I can't remember what they were exactly but it was to do with the partitioning of the harddrive and it's mount points. As far as I know I have tried every possible permiatation... JOn. -- 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