Hi, I have an old HP Pavilion on which I've been running Windows 10 dual booting with Lunbuntu. I decided to uninstall Lunbuntu and replace it with Xenial pup 7.5 64 bit. I attempted to install Grub4dos and get the following error message:
/usr/sbin/grub4dosconfig PBS
version 1.9.2
Tue Jan 9 15:30:48 EST 2018
BINSTALLER=bootlace.com
149.1GiB
102400
101219388
460800
54503424
sda|149kB_ATA_Hitachi_HTS72321
sda1|(ntfs)_100MB_System
sda2|(ntfs)_96.5GB_
sda3|(ntfs)_450MB_
sda5|(ext4)_51.9GB_
PCPARTS:
/dev/sda1|ntfs|102400
/dev/sda2|ntfs|101219388
/dev/sda3|ntfs|460800
/dev/sda5|ext4|54503424
LPART:/dev/sda5|ext4|54503424
CHAINLOADER=
MYPUPPY=sr0/puppy_xenialpup64_7.5.sfs
sda5/boot/initrd.gz,/boot/vmlinuz|xenialpup64_7.5
sda5/boot/initrd.gz,/boot/vmlinuz|xenialpup64_7.5
sda1/bootmgr|Windows
WIN:sda1/bootmgr|Windows
Writing... /initrd/mnt/dev_save/menu.lst
:Windows:
:Windows (sda1)Xenialpup64 7.5 (sda5/boot):
Installing grldr ...
'/usr/lib/grub4dos/grldr' -> '/initrd/mnt/dev_save/grldr'
cp: cannot stat '': No such file or directory
Failed to install extlinux.
/dev/sda Bootalbe: yes,
The ntfs-3g driver was unable to mount the NTFS
partition and returned this error message:
The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Operation not permitted
The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown
Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume
read-only with the 'ro' mount option.
So, the inbuilt kernel NTFS driver has been used
to mount the partition read-only.
What a mess. Now when I boot, instead of getting the menu, I get the grub rescue prompt. Thanks in advance for your patience and assistance. If you need any additional information, please let me know. Thanks, Scott
Xenialpup won't boot in HP Pavilion, can't install grub
Hi Scott
Is it an efi machine you have?
You booted Puppy from usb? Then you used a script in the menu to install Puppy and in the process installed grub4dos?
I do not recognize the long error message.
I guess you put xenialpup on sda5. sda1 has the boot installation of windows, but that is probably damaged.
I would give priority to getting windows 10 booting again. Do you have a install/rescue/repair stick/iso for windows?
(Unless you do not want windows 10 anymore, but I suppose not.)
Is it an efi machine you have?
I am trying to understand what you did.I decided to uninstall Lunbuntu and replace it with Xenial pup 7.5 64 bit. I attempted to install Grub4dos
You booted Puppy from usb? Then you used a script in the menu to install Puppy and in the process installed grub4dos?
I do not recognize the long error message.
I guess you put xenialpup on sda5. sda1 has the boot installation of windows, but that is probably damaged.
Can you boot anything? maybe from usb stick?Now when I boot, instead of getting the menu, I get the grub rescue prompt.
I would give priority to getting windows 10 booting again. Do you have a install/rescue/repair stick/iso for windows?
(Unless you do not want windows 10 anymore, but I suppose not.)
Last edited by foxpup on Tue 09 Jan 2018, 20:50, edited 1 time in total.
" old HP Pavilion "...model number always helps.
Personally I always run any newer Pups from usb.
Cheap....cheerful...no stuffing up hard drives.
As recently posted I have been using this for usb booting >>> RMPrepUSB
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 746#978746
Chris.
Personally I always run any newer Pups from usb.
Cheap....cheerful...no stuffing up hard drives.
As recently posted I have been using this for usb booting >>> RMPrepUSB
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 746#978746
Chris.
Thanks, I've fixed it
Hi, I had the wrong partition flagged as boot. As soon as this was corrected I was able to install grub and now everything works fine (for now). Thanks for you help. Scott