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failed boot after new installation of 9.10

Asked by Duane Mitchell

I reformatted my hard drive and did a new install of Ubuntu 9.10 from a cd I burned from the website download. I installed it as a stand alone OS using the entire hard drive with no partitions. All went well until it was time to reboot. I got an error that said:

"No such device: c82987ef-8f77-492f-9870-007207055d95
Press any key to continue"

When I press any key, It takes me to the GNU GRUB screen wanting me to select a boot option or mem test. When I select one of the boot options, I get the same error.

Any suggestions as to what is going on?

Thanks

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

> No such device: c82987ef-8f77-492f-9870-007207055d95

You may try to check if UUID from grub.cfg is consistent with the one in fstab or if it exists at all.
e.g. with blkid
examples:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/479590
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/403408

You can also tell Grub CLI which sdaX to boot.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Using%20CLI%20to%20Boot

> stand alone OS
You may also try to enable the option 'not to search for other OS' in /etc/default/grub
The line would look like this:
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#grub%20%28/etc/default/grub%29

btw. consider to create separate /home partition, in order to avoid issues when upgrading.
It also makes reinstallation easier while separate /home partition can be kept proceeding advanced mode.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DrivesAndPartitions

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