laptop problems

[Pete Smout]

Hi,
>From memory the partiton options are the bottom one of 3 on the graphical
install screen, called 'do something else'. From the next screen you can
edit the partitions as you wish.

Regards

Pete S
On Jul 31, 2014 9:31 AM, "arelem3" <arelem3 at bigpond.com> wrote:

> I have  Dell 1520 laptop which had Fedora20  and ubuntu 14.04.
> The cdrom is inoperable so any installation has to be usb which to now was
> no problem.
> I have 14.04LTS live on the usb and have used it to install ubuntu
> previously on this and other machines.
> Both Fedora and Ubuntu started reporting low disk space for root /.
>
> I deleted an empty partition on the laptop using gparted from Fedora and
> now the computer will not boot.
>
> Ubuntu 14.04 will not provide the manual hard drive formatting options and
> partition creation system I am accustomed to with Fedora and CentOS.
> I tried to do a fresh install of 14.04 from the usb but get an error:
> Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root on unknown-block(0,0)
>  If I boot without the usb stick live 14.04 I get error: no such
> partition. Entering rescue mode.
>
> <grub rescue> If I do ls I get (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos3)
> (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos1)
> ls (hd0,msdos5) does nothing.
>  I want to install 14.04LTS again but cannot get to manual partitioning.
>
> Can someone please help
> Thanks in advance
> Roger
>
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