update to 18.10 get no root file system
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For several years I've used Ubuntu (/boot) on a relatively small partition (35GB) and (/home) on essentially all the rest. when things get messy I can format the Linux partition and leave my /home partition untouched.
Apparently this time I made some slight change and now I am in real trouble.
Upon Install now I get the notification No root file system. Not root file system defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu.
Clearly 1) I don't care about the contents of /boot - that I will format anyway.
2) I very much do care about /home - I want it to be unchanged.
To see how deep the damage it, I turn off the computer and did a reboot. Apparently 18.04 is gone. I get the error No root file system is defined and /boot/grub/i386-pc/normal... is not found and grub recover wants to help. I don't know if it can actually help and how to use grub recover if it can.
To see if my disk was still intact I did another boot from the disk on key. This time it said I have no OS, but my disk looks unchanged (the /home part)
I can again go through the process of defining the 35GB partition as /boot and the big partition as /home The home partition is about 1/2 used which is what I remember. The /boot partition has 880MB in use.
What can I do to convince the system that all is well. I used the partition editor to change which partition was /boot and which was /home, but this doesn't seem to be enough. I certainly don't want to define a new partition as that would lose me /home (about 1/2 TB of information)
Can anyone suggest me a way out of this mess?
I saw a suggestion to use GParted and there I saw the mess. It had taken my small disk and expanded it to 1/2 the volume. What I see in the install program and GParted are hugely different. I am shrinking the partition down to what is allowed but it is taking a long time. Hopefully it will eventually work.
Things look bad. When I create a new partition, it wants to format it. What I would like to be able to do is make some sort of temporary and move files into it (assuming of course that I can still access the current partition). Is there any hope here or is all lost?
Thanks,
grub2 partitioning 18.10
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For several years I've used Ubuntu (/boot) on a relatively small partition (35GB) and (/home) on essentially all the rest. when things get messy I can format the Linux partition and leave my /home partition untouched.
Apparently this time I made some slight change and now I am in real trouble.
Upon Install now I get the notification No root file system. Not root file system defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu.
Clearly 1) I don't care about the contents of /boot - that I will format anyway.
2) I very much do care about /home - I want it to be unchanged.
To see how deep the damage it, I turn off the computer and did a reboot. Apparently 18.04 is gone. I get the error No root file system is defined and /boot/grub/i386-pc/normal... is not found and grub recover wants to help. I don't know if it can actually help and how to use grub recover if it can.
To see if my disk was still intact I did another boot from the disk on key. This time it said I have no OS, but my disk looks unchanged (the /home part)
I can again go through the process of defining the 35GB partition as /boot and the big partition as /home The home partition is about 1/2 used which is what I remember. The /boot partition has 880MB in use.
What can I do to convince the system that all is well. I used the partition editor to change which partition was /boot and which was /home, but this doesn't seem to be enough. I certainly don't want to define a new partition as that would lose me /home (about 1/2 TB of information)
Can anyone suggest me a way out of this mess?
I saw a suggestion to use GParted and there I saw the mess. It had taken my small disk and expanded it to 1/2 the volume. What I see in the install program and GParted are hugely different. I am shrinking the partition down to what is allowed but it is taking a long time. Hopefully it will eventually work.
Things look bad. When I create a new partition, it wants to format it. What I would like to be able to do is make some sort of temporary and move files into it (assuming of course that I can still access the current partition). Is there any hope here or is all lost?
Thanks,
grub2 partitioning 18.10
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For several years I've used Ubuntu (/boot) on a relatively small partition (35GB) and (/home) on essentially all the rest. when things get messy I can format the Linux partition and leave my /home partition untouched.
Apparently this time I made some slight change and now I am in real trouble.
Upon Install now I get the notification No root file system. Not root file system defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu.
Clearly 1) I don't care about the contents of /boot - that I will format anyway.
2) I very much do care about /home - I want it to be unchanged.
To see how deep the damage it, I turn off the computer and did a reboot. Apparently 18.04 is gone. I get the error No root file system is defined and /boot/grub/i386-pc/normal... is not found and grub recover wants to help. I don't know if it can actually help and how to use grub recover if it can.
To see if my disk was still intact I did another boot from the disk on key. This time it said I have no OS, but my disk looks unchanged (the /home part)
I can again go through the process of defining the 35GB partition as /boot and the big partition as /home The home partition is about 1/2 used which is what I remember. The /boot partition has 880MB in use.
What can I do to convince the system that all is well. I used the partition editor to change which partition was /boot and which was /home, but this doesn't seem to be enough. I certainly don't want to define a new partition as that would lose me /home (about 1/2 TB of information)
Can anyone suggest me a way out of this mess?
I saw a suggestion to use GParted and there I saw the mess. It had taken my small disk and expanded it to 1/2 the volume. What I see in the install program and GParted are hugely different. I am shrinking the partition down to what is allowed but it is taking a long time. Hopefully it will eventually work.
Things look bad. When I create a new partition, it wants to format it. What I would like to be able to do is make some sort of temporary and move files into it (assuming of course that I can still access the current partition). Is there any hope here or is all lost?
Thanks,
grub2 partitioning 18.10
asked Nov 20 at 11:51
Ilan
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For several years I've used Ubuntu (/boot) on a relatively small partition (35GB) and (/home) on essentially all the rest. when things get messy I can format the Linux partition and leave my /home partition untouched.
Apparently this time I made some slight change and now I am in real trouble.
Upon Install now I get the notification No root file system. Not root file system defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu.
Clearly 1) I don't care about the contents of /boot - that I will format anyway.
2) I very much do care about /home - I want it to be unchanged.
To see how deep the damage it, I turn off the computer and did a reboot. Apparently 18.04 is gone. I get the error No root file system is defined and /boot/grub/i386-pc/normal... is not found and grub recover wants to help. I don't know if it can actually help and how to use grub recover if it can.
To see if my disk was still intact I did another boot from the disk on key. This time it said I have no OS, but my disk looks unchanged (the /home part)
I can again go through the process of defining the 35GB partition as /boot and the big partition as /home The home partition is about 1/2 used which is what I remember. The /boot partition has 880MB in use.
What can I do to convince the system that all is well. I used the partition editor to change which partition was /boot and which was /home, but this doesn't seem to be enough. I certainly don't want to define a new partition as that would lose me /home (about 1/2 TB of information)
Can anyone suggest me a way out of this mess?
I saw a suggestion to use GParted and there I saw the mess. It had taken my small disk and expanded it to 1/2 the volume. What I see in the install program and GParted are hugely different. I am shrinking the partition down to what is allowed but it is taking a long time. Hopefully it will eventually work.
Things look bad. When I create a new partition, it wants to format it. What I would like to be able to do is make some sort of temporary and move files into it (assuming of course that I can still access the current partition). Is there any hope here or is all lost?
Thanks,
grub2 partitioning 18.10
grub2 partitioning 18.10
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