Hi Barry, You're not by any fortunate chance in London, are you?
Can you give us an idea of your filesystem layout? i.e.: /dev/sda1 is /boot /dev/sda2 is /home /dev/sda3 is / or whatever? I am willing to bet you're not getting all the filesystems mounted properly/in their proper place. For instance, in the example above, you'd have: boot to your live CD Open a terminal window Type 'sudo -s' #this should give you a root prompt mkdir /mounts/oldroot mount /dev/sda3 /mounts/oldroot mount /dev/sda2 /mounts/oldroot/home mount /dev/sda1 /mounts/oldroot/boot chroot /mounts/oldroot # you should now have a root prompt that may look a little different # maybe here just try running update-grub2 # then grub-install /dev/sda #assuming your ubuntu install is on /dev/sda # and tell us what the output is. I am assuming here that you have only one OS on this disk and aren't doing anything funky. Cheers, Glen On 18/10/10 07:27, Barry Titterton wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 20:48 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: >> On 17/10/10 17:34, Barry Titterton wrote: >>> I finally found the time to try and fix this machine but I could not get >>> this to work when running from a LTS live CD: when running dpkg >>> virtually every line in the terminal had "permission denied", then the >>> process gave up with the message "too many errors". >>> >>> Can you please give me exact, "Linux for Idiots" instructions for every >>> step of the operation as I am obviously not doing something right. >>> >>> >> I'm guessing you need to run the command as root, so put sudo in front >> of each of the commands. >> >> Rob >> > I tried this and it had no effect, same errors. > > Should I be mounting the hard disk in a particular way or with specific > modifiers? > > Barry > > -- Glen Mehn glen.m...@oba.co.uk skype: glenmehn | blog: http://glen.mehn.net/mba UK: +44(0)7942 675 755 | US: +1 415 704 4737 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
