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I got a PC with Intel 64 Bit Processor.
There I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS at /dev/sdb1
and Arch Linux at /dev/sda1
.
Both swap onto /dev/sdb2
.
I tried (with succes) to install Arch Linux onto a SD-Card (/dev/sdc
) for my raspberry pi. There I tried to install vim to the SD-Card using pacstrap
. This produced a few errors. Then I plugged off my SD-Card reader.
After rebooting my PC I saw a GRUB_RESCUE>
promt. And the Line:
error:no such device:5a28b060-333c-479a-b5ed-58a7b9d8ae77.
This is the UUID of my Ubuntu partition (/dev/sdb1
)
my first try
Then I used my amd64 boot repair disc and installed GRUB onto /dev/sdb
. Then I had to disable /dev/sda
in the Bios and Ubuntu is booting nicely.
Arch was'nt shown up at this moment.
Then I ran sudo update-grub
and rebooted. Then Arch Linux was shown up but if I selected
Arch on /dev/sda1 my satadisc or somthing like that produced a ugly sound and my PC rebooted.
The output was
:~$ sudo update-grub
Grub-Konfigurationsdatei wird generiert … #generating grub.cfg
Linux-Abbild gefunden: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-35-generic #Linux-image found
initrd-Abbild gefunden: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-35-generic
Linux-Abbild gefunden: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-34-generic
initrd-Abbild gefunden: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-34-generic
Linux-Abbild gefunden: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-33-generic
initrd-Abbild gefunden: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-33-generic
Linux-Abbild gefunden: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-32-generic
initrd-Abbild gefunden: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-32-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Arch auf /dev/sda1 gefunden #found Arch on /dev/sda1
erledigt #done
interesting is that GRUB says only 'found Arch on /dev/sda1'.
my second try
Then I tried to install GRUB onto /dev/sda
and activated sda
in the Bios.
Then my machine produced again this ugly sound and I had to start again with the boot repair disc
my fourth try
is this here. I checked the /boot
folder of Arch and of Ubuntu the differents are:
-Arch has got two initramfs.img
(one is fallback) images
-Ubuntu has got a few initrd.img
images(different versions)
-Ubuntu has got a few System.map
files(see above)
-Ubuntu has got a few config files(again for the different versions)
-Ubuntu has got a few 'abi' files(what's that?)
And the filesystem of my Arch-partition is not damaged.
By the way I don't want to reinstall Arch because my installation is at a point where it would be really a lot work to rebuild the system.
Could it be that my MBR of /dev/sda
are damaged?
Now I want to be able again to start both Operating Systems properly.