[ale] why Linux hurts/disappoints me more than once

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

Thank You.  If I cant even get into the OS how can I do what you have
suggested.

Is there something that I can do to get to the shell  to run commands ?

-Narahari

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Kaerka Phillips <kbphillips80 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Based your details, this doesn't sound like a hard drive failure, but
> instead, like there is a gpt bootsector installed rather than an mbr, or
> other unrecognisable bootsector.
> One way to determine this would be to use either gparted or fdisk on the
> drive to determine the mbr/gpt type, and if you do have gpt in use, then
> install grub2 instead of regular grub to handle this.  If it is an mbr, but
> grub hasn't properly installed to it, you may need to do a grub-install to
> change the mbr.  Another area that could be an issue is if the boot
> partition or drive isn't set to active, this could cause a similar failure.
>
>
> "Installed UBUNTU 10.04 server, installation went fine but then after
> reboot I got Unable to mount root fs unknown block (0,0)."
>
> There really isn't enough technical details here to do much more than
> guess, but I would also ask - why Ubuntu Server rather than something like
> Mythbuntu?  (http://www.mythbuntu.org/)
>
> Last but not least, did you wipe out the partition table and mbr from the
> previous windows install (was it Win7 by chance?)?  Or just install over it?
>
> If you've left windows partitions on the drive, this can also be an issue
> to work around, in that you'll need to adjust how grub sees the bootsector
> and boot partition, drive order, and where you install the grub bootloader.
>
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha <
> savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Friends:
>>
>> I have this decently good machine AMD BE2400.  I have Windoze on it for my
>> other folks at home to use as my pseudo-HTPC.  I wanted to convert that to
>> MYTH TV SERVER(It has 2 TB of storage)
>>
>> Installed UBUNTU 10.04 server, installation went fine but then after
>> reboot I got Unable to mount root fs unknown block (0,0).
>>
>> Cleaned out that install put the DEBIAN SQUEEZE on the machine.  The
>> installation went fine but this time also after reboot I am getting Unable
>> to mount root fs unknown block (0,0).
>>
>> Before you folks say anything, this is quite a new Hard drive, may be 1.5
>> year old, very light use.  So bad hard drive is ruled out.
>>
>> Any hints how I can fix this ?
>>
>> -Narahari
>>
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