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

[nick pitlosh]

although if you really want correction i think a length of thicknet
coax from the 80's might be found to do the job.

Nick
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:51 PM, nick pitlosh <nickpitlosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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