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Thread: After Ubntu 9.10 Server installation, grub says: "no such disk"

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so i'm setting old computer server, installation of ubuntu 9.10 server (32bit) went successfully, on boot says:
"error: no such disk
press key continue"

i've set number of multi boot systems first dedicated linux.

computer old dell (originally came win98 )
has 450 mhz pentium iii, 384mb of ram , 160gb ide hdd

ls results in:
"(hd0) (hd0,1) (fd0) (fd1)
error: no such disk"
, did ls /boot , things prefixed system.map, vmlinuz, config, abi, vmmcoreinfo, initrd.img, , memtest86.bin plus grub/ folder
there supposed linux kernel in there? or wrong

in advance

note: booted live cd , cannot mount drive (it's not clear me why... can't).

is there supposed linux kernel in there? o
you have kernel: vmlinuz


error: no such disk
sound hardware or bios problem. or maybe cables aren't plugged in right.

lets check out system before jump conclusions.

"sh: grub>" prompt or "rescue: grub>" prompt?


in first case can try boot ubuntu via:

code:
search -f --set /vmlinuz probe  --set=u -u $root linux /vmlinuz root=uuid=$u ro initrd /initrd.img boot

in second case (or if above did not work) try

code:
set root=(hd0,1) set prefix=(hd0,1)/boot/grub insmod ext2 insmod linux set root=(hd0,1 ) linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /initrd.img boot
the values in red depend on location of ubuntu partition. "ls" output seems ubuntu first partition on first hard drive, should correct.


if able boot ubuntu, run
code:
sudo grub-install /dev/sda sudo update-grub
reboot , see whether things improved.

if did not solve problem, (and doubt will), report error messages got. if have kind of linux live cd, boot , follow these instruction run boot info script , post results.txt: http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/


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