Install failure, /dev/disk/by-uuid/8**** does not exist.

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:56:30 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:

> Aart Koelewijn wrote:
> 
>> I had an old computer runnig 7.10 quite nicely.
>> 
>> I upgraded it to 8.04, but when I had to reboot it, it failed me,
>> nothing happened anymore, a hardware (motherboard?) failure, I suppose.
>> 
>> Now with bits and parts of this computer and an other old computer,
>> about the same age, both Pentium III I build something which I think
>> should work.
>> 
>> I tried the live 8.04 cd, which worked nicely, so I proceded to
>> install. All seemed to go well, but at the end the install procedure
>> broke off and when I tried to boot from hard-disk I got "GRUB loading
>> stage 1.5.  Error 15".
> 
> Since the last thing in the install process is the Grub install, then
> that's not really surprising.
> 
> I'm not quite sure why you would expect an install that clearly failed
> to work.  Your only real choice would seem to be to try reinstalling -
> but I'd like to know what you really meant by "the install procedure
> broke off".

It did not surprise me, I just tested to make sure. I wrote "the install 
procedure broke off" because I was not sure if the Grub install was the 
last thing in the install procedure. As I'm not a native English speaker 
there might be better ways to describe this.

Aart