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

[nick pitlosh]

thats about as close to 50 lashes (minus 1) with a serial cable as you
will get from me.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:49 PM, nick pitlosh <nickpitlosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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