Krzykawski.com » OS http://krzykawski.com Opensource, work, projects - sharing the fun. Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:46:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 fit-pc slim http://krzykawski.com/2009/01/19/fit-pc-slim/ http://krzykawski.com/2009/01/19/fit-pc-slim/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:05:36 +0000 robertk http://krzykawski.com/2009/01/19/fit-pc-slim/ I bought a fit-pc slim a while ago, but could not install it untill a couple of days back. Did not really have any time to spend on something like this. fit-pc_slim1Anyway, i was installing Ubuntu 8.10 Server, and hit a bug in the Ubuntu installation.
I was installing the OS on a USB Flash drive since i want the box to be stable and not use a lot of power.
When Ubuntu 8.10 writes down the grub mbr, it will not overwrite the mbr if grub is already installed. I dont know if this is the case in other versions of Ubuntu. However, you will not have this problem if you have a fresh USB Flash drive without a mbr written, but if you have used the Flash drive for some other installation before.

To fix this I booted the system on a bootable GRUB CD and rewrote the mbr from the GRUB shell/OS.

If you don’t know how to do this there is a bootable superGRUB image that can be installed on USB Flash, Floppy or CD-ROM. It has some fancy menus that will guide you through different processes. If you want to learn more about GRUB it is also a great resource to just start up and play around with.
I believe SuperGRUB can be found at http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

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