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Installation of 9.10 fails with error: no such device: b881bfbe-556d-4a71-b229-a1f3bee8737d

Asked by Rodney

I had 8.04 installed on a machine but decided to do a clean install with 9.10 so tried a clean install (using full disk and destroying any current data). My mistake, now I can not install 9.10 and of course, 8.04 is no longer there. Installation appears to go fine, completes the install, shuts down, and asks for a restart. When I restart, I get
error: no such device; b881bfbe-556d-4a71-b229-a1f3bee8737d failed to boot default entries. Press any key to continue...
      This error repeats any time I press a key. I've tried with two different CD'x (burned from ISO files).
Since I did have an earlier version of Ubuntu running well on this system, I can not determine what I am doing wrong. I have tried the install three times with the same poor results. Any suggestions? Thanks, Rodney

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

I think your PC is experiencing the following grub2 bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/403408

Please try the solutions in that bug report.

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#2

Please also try the solution from forumuser Tom of Helatrobus at this location

http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8765338
http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8755145&postcount=23

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

add:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/106315

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Rodney (rciwan) said : 		#4

After trying several solutions suggested with no good results, I backed out and installed version 9.04 which installed easily on this machine. I'll not try 9.10 again until after the Beta version has been massaged a bit more. I'll just close out this item as solved and wait for the improved version to be finalized. Thanks to all for their help. Rodney

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#5

> I'll not try 9.10 again until after the Beta version

9.10 isn't beta, but 10.04 is.
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta2
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule

Since Grub_2 issue seems to be fixed, you could try to boot from CLI, as suggested in the Wiki link, and afterwards update packages right away.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Using%20CLI%20to%20Boot

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#6

Hi :)

I would always recommend trying a LiveCd session of a new release or another distro before installing it. Some hardware compatibility issues do occasionally arise with a new release but hopefully there is less chance of that in the final release. Still, it would be interesting to know if you can run a LiveCd session of 10.04 on your machine
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

The version numbers show
year.month
of release so its the 10.04 that is still in beta testing

Please can you let us know the cpu speed and the Ram size?
Good luck & regards from
Tom :)