Noob / Boot problem with Maya SOLVED

[gazzaf]

OK guys I've been running Lisa for 6 months without too much problems and I was reading the forums especially the stuff from fred re partitioning so I decided to upgrade to Maya and sort out my partitioning at the same time.

I could not get the partitioning to work as the installer kept saying something about an error loading grub to sda2 or sda1 no matter what order I tried so I thought sod it just get it working and used the nuclear install option and wiped everything. The install worked (or appeared to ) BUT now when I boot up apart from making the expected noises nothing happens unless I try to boot up using the Live USB I created. Then it boots up ok and I can eject my USB and make changes to my desktop for example which are maintained so I'm guessing that its something to do with grub and or the bootloader. Any suggestions will be gratefully received !.

Cheers

Gazza

[oobetimer]

Remove ubuquity-slideshow-mint package before installation ..

[gazzaf]

How do I do that ?

[Deemoney]

I've done this myself, if you did what I did. You used a Live USB, and the installer put the bootloader for your hard disk on the USB drive. If this sounds confusing, it is.


First and foremost, as many will tell you, you never install a bootloader to a certain partition of the disk, you install it to the disk itself. So instead of sda1 or sda2, you install to /dev/sda.

Secondly, I don't know why it does this, but by default Mint will put the bootloader on your Live USB, which makes it not a Live USB anymore. It makes it your hard drive bootloader with the Mint live environment buried beneath. You can boot your OS, which is the same deal I had. To fix this, from your new install, open a terminal and run the following commands:

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sudo grub-install /dev/sdX
sudo update-grub

Where X is the device letter for the hard drive you've installed Mint to. If you have just one disk, it's most likely /dev/sda. You can confirm it using the "df" command or "fdisk -l".


To recover your Live USB, you can re-burn it or just try to restore the bootloader. Just telling you my experience and hoping it helps.

[gazzaf]

Thanks for the help that worked fine