vaw5
Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:33:20 pm
Computer hardware (custom-built):
Processor: 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ : 2399.95MHz
Memory: 1942MB
Storage: sda1 - 214 GB, of which 98 GB free
sda 5 - 16 GB, of which 13 GB free - (ext4 partition)
Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on NV67
X11 Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
BIOS: Date: 01/10/2008 Vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD (http://www.phoenix.com) Version: 6.00 PG
OS - dual boot Windows XP and Zorin
I was a user of Zorin OS9 core, dual-booting with Windows XP. I upgraded to Zorin OS12 core but afterwards my computer would no longer boot up at all. It just gives an error message:
Boot from CD:
error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found.
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue>
In general the upgrade worked out as described in the instructions, and everything followed as expected (I am fairly new to Linux though). However there are a couple of things that I noticed about the installation procedure :
- I wasn't asked about resizing or creating any new partitions or anything, although I had done the deletes (of linux-swap partition and so forth) as instructed. Perhaps the install software accepted the partition used for OS 9
- when it said on screen, I think, that the OS update was complete, I may have accidentally brushed the End, Delete or Arrow keys area of the keyboard. It's possible that I mis-hit a key in doing so. Just after that, unless it was coincidence, the window closed and the text-only screen came up with the message:
sdb No caching mode page found (or similar wording)
sdb Assuming drive cache: write through (or similar)
sda Ubuntu carrying out installation ... (or similar)
This message carried on slowly flashing on and off for well over half an hour, so I assumed an error and turned off the power on the machine. I thought I had given it long enough to close of its own accord.
In the past, when using OS9, I may have seen some reference to the GRUB when updating, but did not know what it meant. So perhaps the initial mistake goes back a while.
So far I have tried using Boot-repair-disk https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair, as suggested by Aiiaiiio in another (closed) thread (thanks for your suggestions, Aiiaiiio)
http://zoringroup.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12517
Boot-repair looks promising, but it will not proceed beyond this error message:
Please close all your package managers (Software Center, Update Manager, Synaptic... ) then try again. Yet I am not using the package managers that it implies. I have tried deleting the 'lock' file at /var/lib/dpkg/lock (suggested at Ubuntu) but this makes no difference.
Any ideas welcome.
Processor: 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ : 2399.95MHz
Memory: 1942MB
Storage: sda1 - 214 GB, of which 98 GB free
sda 5 - 16 GB, of which 13 GB free - (ext4 partition)
Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on NV67
X11 Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
BIOS: Date: 01/10/2008 Vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD (http://www.phoenix.com) Version: 6.00 PG
OS - dual boot Windows XP and Zorin
I was a user of Zorin OS9 core, dual-booting with Windows XP. I upgraded to Zorin OS12 core but afterwards my computer would no longer boot up at all. It just gives an error message:
Boot from CD:
error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found.
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue>
In general the upgrade worked out as described in the instructions, and everything followed as expected (I am fairly new to Linux though). However there are a couple of things that I noticed about the installation procedure :
- I wasn't asked about resizing or creating any new partitions or anything, although I had done the deletes (of linux-swap partition and so forth) as instructed. Perhaps the install software accepted the partition used for OS 9
- when it said on screen, I think, that the OS update was complete, I may have accidentally brushed the End, Delete or Arrow keys area of the keyboard. It's possible that I mis-hit a key in doing so. Just after that, unless it was coincidence, the window closed and the text-only screen came up with the message:
sdb No caching mode page found (or similar wording)
sdb Assuming drive cache: write through (or similar)
sda Ubuntu carrying out installation ... (or similar)
This message carried on slowly flashing on and off for well over half an hour, so I assumed an error and turned off the power on the machine. I thought I had given it long enough to close of its own accord.
In the past, when using OS9, I may have seen some reference to the GRUB when updating, but did not know what it meant. So perhaps the initial mistake goes back a while.
So far I have tried using Boot-repair-disk https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair, as suggested by Aiiaiiio in another (closed) thread (thanks for your suggestions, Aiiaiiio)
http://zoringroup.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12517
Boot-repair looks promising, but it will not proceed beyond this error message:
Please close all your package managers (Software Center, Update Manager, Synaptic... ) then try again. Yet I am not using the package managers that it implies. I have tried deleting the 'lock' file at /var/lib/dpkg/lock (suggested at Ubuntu) but this makes no difference.
Any ideas welcome.
