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

[Rob Haag]

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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