[nmglug] can't boot USB drive & apt-get dist-upgrade

[nick pitlosh]

you know theres this modern invention called writing, where if you put
ideas on a medium, others can gain the information contained within. I
know its hard to do sometimes, but i'm trying to point out that while
a guided tour might be helpful to a novice unfamiliar with the
library, rarely does the seeker ask the librarian to read to him.

my 2 cents.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:43 PM, nick pitlosh <nickpitlosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> no, i'm sending you on a wild goose chase. as soon as you burn the cd,
> it flies away honking.
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:41 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:
>> Thanks. I did a quick overview of it and downloaded it but haven't installed
>> it. Is it applicable to what I'm trying to do?
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> On 02/10/2012 04:16 PM, nick pitlosh wrote:
>>
>> take a look at the plop boot manager its educational, most grub's are
>> set up with uuids rather than the classic, btw
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:04 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:
>>
>> When I choose to boot from USB device I get a grub menu to choose the kernel
>> to boot. I pick one, doesn't seem to matter which, and the boot starts but I
>> know no way to interrupt it to choose from the USB HD BIOS an option to boot
>> from the USB drive. How can I do that , if I even can?
>>
>>
>> On 01/31/2012 06:20 PM, Rob Haag wrote:
>>
>> This is just an inquiry to your problem... Do you think that it is booting
>> to the USB drive, then the Grub installed on that one is attempting to boot
>> your internal HDD (because Grub on the USB drive is probably configured to
>> boot off of the 1st partiion of the 1st hard disk) ? This could occur if you
>> used the PC's bios to choose to start from the USB disk (interrupt the
>> pc's startup (not the bootloader's) to choose a boot device). If that is the
>> case, you could interupt Grub (on the USB disk) and tell it to boot from the
>> USB disk...
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:47 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry about the double post but e2fsprogs is installed.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> On 01/31/2012 05:46 PM, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>>
>> A while back I cloned my HD to a larger HD using dd and the advice of all
>> the great guys on this list. It worked perfectly and after the cloning I
>> booted the new drive as a USB device and that also worked perfectly so I
>> replaced the smaller HD with the new one.
>> I had an idea that I could boot the old drive as a USB device and try the
>> apt-get dist-upgrade on that version, which is also Ubuntu 10.10 though
>> without some updates over the last several months. This would let me know
>> how the partial upgrade worked. However....
>> When I try to boot the USB drive grub defaults to the newer, installed HD
>> and the USB drive won't boot. I also can't see the drive in nautilus but it
>> does show up in GParted as mounted. There is a info flag with it that
>> states,
>> "Unable to read the contents of this file system! Because some of this
>> some operations may be unavailable.
>> The following list of software packages is required for ext4 file system
>> support: e2fsprogs v1.41+."
>>
>> If the file system is unreadable then the unbootability makes sense but
>> what would cause it to become that way?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
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