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Ubuntu 11.04 on external USB drive:- /boot not ready error

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Hi, I followed your guide for installing 11.04 on an ext usb drive. I used a small usb drive to install ubuntu on a 500GB drive set up exactly as you suggested on my samsung laptop.

If I try and cold boot, all I get is XP still, if I restart I get a partial boot up except I have to skip ‘S’ as /boot is not ready or not yet present.

If I try the HDD on my intended computer (A DELL), it never evens acknowledges the HDD other than a quick boot error on its way to XP!

If I run the usb stick and try and mount the 500GB drive, it again fails to mount with an input/output error.

Think all I need is a tweak somewhere, but no idea where. HELP?

 

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  1. finid on Jun 01, 2011

    The same thing happened with my installation of Linux Mint 11 on an SDHC card. /boot and Swap could not be mounted, so pressing “S” for both was the only way it could boot. Once it booted though it ran like any other.

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  2. rob addison on May 31, 2011

    Must have been tired when I wrote this! (the USB stick was the install source)

    I have a USB HDD that I installed 11.04 on, except its not recognised by my DELL (XP) and only recognised by my Samsung if I restart from XP and press Skip ‘S’ at /boot not ready. Then it appears to work.

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  3. finid on May 30, 2011

    This is kinda confusing. Could you restate the question.

    Where does the USB stick come in. XP, where is that? Samsung laptop? Dell computer?

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