stillblue said:
Let's get the terms straight so we can be sure we're on the same page. A drive is a physical object and a partition is a part of a drive. My hard drive can have several partitions. You do not select a partition to boot with F11, that is to tell the computer what physical object to boot from, a USB Drive, the cd/dvd drive or hard drive are examples.
So, do you have two drives? What are they? How did you partition the 2T drive? Did you remove the windows drive during the install of Ubuntu? Do you have safeboot on in your Bios? Finally, where on the 2Tdrive did you put the ubuntu partition? ie beginning or end of the partition?
stillblue said:
It sounds like you did everything right except telling it where to put grub, the ubuntu launcher. No problem though. Start your computer with your Ubuntu install media. 1st take a look at the partitions and see if your data is still intact. Then connect to the net and install boot-repair
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair for instructions, accept the default. It should fix you up.
what does worry me though is that you can't see any of the drive. while windows doesn't feel the need to acknowledge the existence of other formats and you won't be able to see the linux partitions the rest should still be visible.
stillblue said:
Let's get the terms straight so we can be sure we're on the same page. A drive is a physical object and a partition is a part of a drive. My hard drive can have several partitions. You do not select a partition to boot with F11, that is to tell the computer what physical object to boot from, a USB Drive, the cd/dvd drive or hard drive are examples.
So, do you have two drives? What are they? How did you partition the 2T drive? Did you remove the windows drive during the install of Ubuntu? Do you have safeboot on in your Bios? Finally, where on the 2Tdrive did you put the ubuntu partition? ie beginning or end of the partition?
stillblue said:
It sounds like you did everything right except telling it where to put grub, the ubuntu launcher. No problem though. Start your computer with your Ubuntu install media. 1st take a look at the partitions and see if your data is still intact. Then connect to the net and install boot-repair
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair for instructions, accept the default. It should fix you up.
what does worry me though is that you can't see any of the drive. while windows doesn't feel the need to acknowledge the existence of other formats and you won't be able to see the linux partitions the rest should still be visible.
Ok, so now Ubuntu boots, but Win 8 doesn't any more
When I let my computer do a standard boot (where I don't select the Ubuntu boot drive), it comes up with this error
err: disk 'ldm/a3943930-0014-11e3-be69-d43d7ed8930e/Volume1' not found
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue>
at which point I can enter commands (although not sure what commands to use, as ls lists the 3 hdd [hd0], [hd1], [hd2] connected to my pc, but my understanding of terminal is very limited)
This same error occurs if I select my ssd drive from the boot menu.
Here is also the URL for the boot repair
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7141195/
Thanks heaps for your help so far