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... <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:47 PM, BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Sorry about the double post but e2fsprogs is installed.<br>
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Brian<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 01/31/2012 05:46 PM, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
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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.<br>
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....<br>
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, <br>
"Unable to read the contents of this file system! Because some of
this some operations may be unavailable.<br>
The following list of software packages is required for ext4 file
system support: e2fsprogs v1.41+."<br>
<br>
If the file system is unreadable then the unbootability makes
sense but what would cause it to become that way?<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
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