Help with "partition not found" after 12.04 upgrade

[Jared Norris]

On 30 April 2012 02:53, Charlie Zender <zender at uci.edu> wrote:
> Am having the worst upgrade experience of the entire Ubuntu series.
> Just tried oneiric->precise kubuntu, i.e., 11.10->12.04:
> Things seemed to be going smoothly until the reboot at the end.
> Now system stops at the grub bootloader stage: every kernel I
> choose to boot (regular, safe-boot, my windows partition, or
> older Ubuntu kernels) responds with multiple copies of the same
> error message: "partition not found". Nothing boots.
>
> Since I can't boot anything, how can I "fix" the system (grub's
> menu.lst? /etc/fstab?) without having to do a fresh install?
>
> Thanks!
> Charlie
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If you're installing on a computer with multiple drives just double
check it's installing Grub to the correct hard drive. I had an issue
where it defaults to installing it to sdb despite me telling it to
partition sda as the drive to use.

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Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
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