On 06/06/15 18:29, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
the grub menu is used when booting the disc via native EFI, whereas the
orange screen is for "El Torito" dvd boot. This difference will explain
the differences you see from the first install attempt and your
subsequent attempts.
Thanks for that.
I ha
On 6 June 2015 at 17:18, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 06/06/15 16:11, Colin Law wrote:
>
> picture of a man and keyboard at the bottom of screen? If so what
>> happens if you immediately hit a key?
>>
>
> Yes there is. If I hit a key, I get a menu, but it is not the grub menu I
> got on first boot
On 06/06/15 17:03, Colin Law wrote:
> Is it possible, on your first attempt, that before selecting the erase
> all option you had gone into the "Something Else" option and selected
> sdb as the boot loader destination? Unfortunately I have not got a
> spare machine at the moment and don't want t
On 06/06/15 16:11, Colin Law wrote:
picture of a man and keyboard at the bottom of screen? If so what
happens if you immediately hit a key?
Yes there is. If I hit a key, I get a menu, but it is not the grub menu
I got on first boot from the disk. It does not include the OEM install
option
On 6 June 2015 at 15:47, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 06/06/15 14:40, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> I that case perhaps, as I suggested, you did not tell the installer to
>> use sdb for boot.
>
>
> As Ubuntu is now so quick and easy to install, I popped a spare 80GiB drive
> into my caddy, and repeated the exa
On 6 June 2015 at 15:47, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 06/06/15 14:40, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> I that case perhaps, as I suggested, you did not tell the installer to
>> use sdb for boot.
>
>
> As Ubuntu is now so quick and easy to install, I popped a spare 80GiB drive
> into my caddy, and repeated the exa
On 06/06/15 14:40, Colin Law wrote:
I that case perhaps, as I suggested, you did not tell the installer to
use sdb for boot.
As Ubuntu is now so quick and easy to install, I popped a spare 80GiB
drive into my caddy, and repeated the exact procedure to install onto
sdc (the 80GiB drive).
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On 6 June 2015 at 14:24, Barry Drake wrote:
> ...
> When I decided to re-install, everything was the same as before, but the
> warning did not appear at all. Grub was installed to sda only, and sdb was
> not at that time made bootable.
I that case perhaps, as I suggested, you did not tell the in
On 06/06/15 12:19, Colin Law wrote:
How were you trying to boot off sdb (when it "would not boot")?>
What exactly happened when you tried?
The installer requested that I restart the system and ejected the DVD as
normal. On restart, I first allowed the normal grub screen (from sda)
to appear
On 6 June 2015 at 12:11, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 06/06/15 11:50, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> You did not answer the other questions on my previous post. Apologies
>> if that is because you still have to sort out the answers. I thought
>> I had better say in case you had missed the questions.
>
>
> Sor
On 06/06/15 11:50, Colin Law wrote:
You did not answer the other questions on my previous post. Apologies
if that is because you still have to sort out the answers. I thought
I had better say in case you had missed the questions.
Sorry Colin . I saw all the questions - the fact is I did
On 6 June 2015 at 11:27, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 06/06/15 11:07, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 6 June 2015 at 10:32, Barry Drake wrote:
>>>
>>> On 06/06/15 08:31, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>>
>> I don't think 'sda' is a valid answer to all the questions, notably:>
>> As originally setup how did you select
On 06/06/15 11:07, Colin Law wrote:
On 6 June 2015 at 10:32, Barry Drake wrote:
On 06/06/15 08:31, Colin Law wrote:
I don't think 'sda' is a valid answer to all the questions, notably:>
As originally setup how did you select which system to boot from? Did
you tell the BIOS to boot off one dis
On 6 June 2015 at 10:32, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 06/06/15 08:31, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> Assuming the drives were sda and sdb which is which?
>> As originally setup how did you select which system to boot from? Did
>> you tell the BIOS to boot off one disk or the other or did you get a
>> grub menu
On 06/06/15 08:31, Colin Law wrote:
Assuming the drives were sda and sdb which is which?
As originally setup how did you select which system to boot from? Did
you tell the BIOS to boot off one disk or the other or did you get a
grub menu that allowed you to select which one?
If it was the latte
On 6 June 2015 at 08:20, Barry Drake wrote:
> Hi there I had a most annoying problem when installing the testing
> version of Wily - 15.10. I have two internal drives. One currently has
> Mint installed, and the other had 15.04 testing in use until I installed
> 15.10.
>
> Following the d
Hi there I had a most annoying problem when installing the
testing version of Wily - 15.10. I have two internal drives. One
currently has Mint installed, and the other had 15.04 testing in use
until I installed 15.10.
Following the defaults, the installer warned me that it wanted to
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