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I'm undoubtedly a newbie in all this. After reading so many reviews and pushed by a moody pogoplug set up at home (for backing up data and streaming of files), I tried to make my laptops and ipad become reliant on a brand new HP N36L Microserver (AMD Athlon Core Duo, 8GB Ram), 2x2TB WD20EARX HDDs and one Kingston SVP200S3/120G 120 GB,Internal SSD to act as the main booting drive.

Unsurprisingly, I got it all wrong. My Ubuntu installed and runs only from the USB drive I had previously used to install from. And my server can be seen on my home network, but could not be accessed despite the repeated attempts. Most probably I might need to install again? Where did I go wrong in all this?

I get the server going through bios then stops with error: 

error: no such device: 00eaf4-933e-4895-ae66-2f4a44c92fc. grub rescrue>

The boot-repair info file is included.

Update

New boot-repair info and log after installing GRUB on /sda and running boot-repair.

Please help (this really sounds like an SOS out of a stricken ship in a perfect storm).

Thanks

user68186
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  • Wait. You literally installed Ubuntu on USB? Or use the Live version? – Melon Mar 03 '13 at 18:10
  • @user68186: Tried Bootrepair... no deal. – Grand Maitre Mar 03 '13 at 18:20
  • @Melon: Yep... I used the Ubuntu 10.04.4_NetInstall_64 to make a bootable USB. I guess that's the mistake? – Grand Maitre Mar 03 '13 at 18:22
  • Could you explain a bit more, by editing the question, what you did and what exactly happens when you boot from the USB. – user68186 Mar 03 '13 at 18:25
  • @user68186: thanks for coming back. I get the server going through bios then stops with error: "error: no such device: 00eaf4-933e-4895-ae66-2f4a44c92fc. grub rescrue>" – Grand Maitre Mar 03 '13 at 18:58
  • It looks like the bootloader GRUB can't find the rest of the program, that should be in the SSD or HDD. See the accepted answer to http://askubuntu.com/questions/90471/persist-commands-typed-to-grub-rescue . Create the bootinfo summary using boot-repair. upload it at http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/ and add the link to your question. This will help others understand whats going on. – user68186 Mar 03 '13 at 20:07
  • @user68186: Thanks indeed for interest and request. Here's the boot-repair summary to help you understand my mess: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5586133/ – Grand Maitre Mar 04 '13 at 20:28
  • I am not skilled enough to figure this one out quite yet. It seems you have a 16GB USB(?) drive and another 2GB USB drive plugged in. Try these two commands sudo grub-install /dev/sda and then sudo update-grub. – user68186 Mar 04 '13 at 21:13
  • @user68186: Thanks indeed for kind advice - which I will try later today. Yes I have two USB drives plugged in: the 16GB is the one where my Ubuntu is install whereas the 2GB was in the process of being burned with a new fresh install copy of Ubuntu 10.04.4k. Thanks for any tips – Grand Maitre Mar 05 '13 at 07:01
  • @user68186: Followed your advice. Grub install completed without errors. Grub update reported "Could not find /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Would you like /boot/grub/menu.lst generated for you? Y/N". I confirmed request and reported:

    Found Grub 2: /boot/grub/core.img Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-45-generic Found GRUB 2: /boot/grub/core.img Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

    On Booting I get GRUB Loading stage 1.5 GRUB Loading, please wait... Error 21.

    That is where the booting stops. Any advice?

     – Grand Maitre Mar 06 '13 at 06:18
  • @user68186: Following the previous action, I tried boot repair. The good news is that I got a log of the actions as well as an output from boot repair. The bad news is that on booting the system, booting stops with error "Missing operating system." message. (see http://paste.ubuntu.com/5589679) – Grand Maitre Mar 06 '13 at 06:48
  • You may have to reinstall Ubuntu in /sda. – user68186 Mar 06 '13 at 13:23
  • @user68186: thanks... that's what I'll do later this week as am away. Thanks for advice anyway. – Grand Maitre Mar 11 '13 at 07:56

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