[QUOTE]It all came about when I enrolled in a Computer Science degree at De Monfort University and quickly realised I needed to have a Linux OS installed on my laptop. This would be my first time on Linux. So, I had to dual boot alongside Windows 7, which came with the laptop. Bearing in mind, this is in September and I hadn't the knowledge of what it would be like (how gruelling grub would be.)
So, it comes to December and I've installed a few components such as jEdit, Wireshark, Netkit, Ettercap and others. And the boot starts to increasingly get worse and worse in that I was having to turn on and off the laptop at least a couple of times to achieve a full boot into Ubuntu (Windows never having a problem of booting.) One day it just decides to not boot at all, with the generic blank black screen with the typing prompt. Me, being the inquisitive noob attempts "ls" to which there is no response. With it being Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I decided to scratch the whole of the two partitions for it ("/" and "swap") and install 12.10 with the same partitions. This time, it takes a mere day for the boot to **** up again and Boot Repair cannot do anything about it.[/QUOTE]
The above paragraphs signify where I was at before I made the forum entry, "[ubuntu] Still Not Working!" on the Ubuntu forums.
Yesterday, I posted:
[QUOTE]I resized the largest Windows partition by 1GB and then realised it should really be right at the beginning of the Ubuntu partition so shrunk that.
The following URL was what I got when I attempted to install the "/boot" partition as detailed in the link that was given:
paste.ubuntu.com/1531868/
And this is the URL that was given when "Recommended Repair" was done due to the fact that Ubuntu had disappeared from the grub menu:
paste.ubuntu.com/1531923/
It still will not start.[/QUOTE]
As stated in the entry, these are my specs:
[I]Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120830-0333)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: LENOVO
System Model: IdeaPad Z580
BIOS: Phoenix BIOS SC-T v2.2
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU 2.50GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.5GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8056MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 11[/I]
And its partitions:
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 DA3A6E723A6E4C17 ntfs
/dev/sda2 BA766B4C766B0889 ntfs Windows7_OS
/dev/sda4 ACE8A71BE8A6E336 ntfs LENOVO_PART
/dev/sda5 bdc5c63a-09b0-4b26-b0c8-ed2b3db32318 ext4
/dev/sda7 de3ce885-384f-40ea-a255-108192fdb7f2 ext4
[b]Please help![/b]
Mike B?
Yes mate!
Can you help me?
Altough I very much enjoy learning and using Linux, I also discovered it's riddled with bugs. In many cases I just reinstall it to fix boot errors.
Get a live CD, backup your files and re install Ubuntu.
[QUOTE=Uni Git;39259005]Yes mate!
Can you help me?[/QUOTE]
The only thing I would say mate is to re-install it. I would also make your partitions bigger when you re-install. Have you also thought of running a virtual machine instead of a dual boot.
1. This is my third install of Ubuntu - the first two being 12.04 LTS - the first one of which I used "/boot" and "/home" partitions alongside the "/" and "swap" partitions; that eventually failed. From then on I just used "/" and "swap" partitions (because I was advised by the uni. tech. that "/boot" and "/home" was really just for servers.)
2. The "/" partition is over 100GB and the "swap" partition is under 16GB.
3. I've tried running Virtual Box and it was terribly slow. Especially with netkit it was almost fractional.
On the other forum, an Ubuntu member advised in adding a "/boot" partition within the first 100GB of my hard drive, but I have no idea how to safely readjust the Windows partition(s) so I can get a "/boot" partition in there. I've been told using GParted to fiddle with the Windows partitions is not safe.
Essentially, what I need to do is keep the boot files closer to the start of the disk. Can anyone think of a way of moving the big 500GB+ Windows partition to the right so a 1GB "/boot" partition can be added?
I've got a boot info summary here:
[url]http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-linux/194317-ubuntu-not-working-after-several-failed-fixes-2.html[/url]
I don't see why adjusting the Windows partition with GParted would be unsafe. If you shrink or expand the Windows partition, Windows will believe the drive may be corrupted and do a disk scan but the scan should pass without errors
You can try running it under VMware Workstation if you have the means to get it. I've always had good performance with it before i switched to esxi.
[QUOTE=Drumdevil;39277881]You can try running it under VMware Workstation if you have the means to get it. I've always had good performance with it before i switched to esxi.[/QUOTE]
I was told that Virtual Box is better than VMware and considering they are the same sort of software I'm sceptical at the least in attempting to do it again. I'll try this though...
Was really hoping that I could boot into Windows or Ubuntu happily, but it looks like I will have to go and wipe the hard drive to get Ubuntu to work.
[QUOTE=Uni Git;39296239]I was told that Virtual Box is better than VMware and considering they are the same sort of software I'm sceptical at the least in attempting to do it again. I'll try this though...
Was really hoping that I could boot into Windows or Ubuntu happily, but it looks like I will have to go and wipe the hard drive to get Ubuntu to work.[/QUOTE]
Dual booting those is edgy because of Grub. I assure you that if your computer has virtualization support, Workstation will perform fine. The only downside is the resources that Windows uses in the background.
Workstation has a degree of 3D acceleration and you can run it full screen as if it were the host itself.
I use Ubuntu in Virtual box, and must say it works really well.
Colleagues have recommended not using dualboot or VMware due to their personal experiences.
But im convinced dualboot with a nice partition should work though.
Make sure you configure Virtual box right though.
Give it enough CPU and RAM, and activate acceleration.
(Also enable virtualization in your bios)
[QUOTE=taipan;39300886]I use Ubuntu in Virtual box, and must say it works really well.
Colleagues have recommended not using dualboot or VMware due to their personal experiences.
[/QUOTE]
I wonder what those personal experiences are? When Googling comparisons, Workstation is being preferred especially when it comes to virtualizing Linux. People state that using Virtualbox their Linux installations sometimes become corrupt, especially using Ext4 FS.
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