I have an old computer with Kubuntu version 10.10. I want to install the latest version and followed the instruction according the post Install Ubuntu from ISO image directly from hard disk of a system running Linux.
The iso-image is located at /home/newinstall/kubuntu-14.10-desktop-amd64.iso
I changed the /etc/grub.d/40_custom file:
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry "Kubuntu ISO" {
set isofile="/home/newinstall/kubuntu-14.10-desktop-amd64.iso"
loopback loop (hd1,6)$isofile
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz.efi boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile noprompt noeject
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}
After the reboot and choosing the new grub menu "Kubuntu ISO" I've got always the same error:
error: file not found.
error: no such disk.
error: you need to load the kernel first.
There are some other hard disks installed on this system:
$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Vista" UUID="1478E3F678E3D510" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="WinXP" UUID="70445A47445A1068" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb5: LABEL="DataXP" UUID="1EC4D769C4D74227" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb6: UUID="3155a65d-e23d-4b53-844a-f5071e0fd957" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb7: UUID="6780d437-a484-40da-a95c-06ce66d8b3cd" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb8: UUID="8c31b07c-eaac-4404-9e03-c1ce66ca0d6f" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb9: UUID="ceb365a4-5f7b-414a-954c-f7e2c93264ed" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb10: UUID="f35c6cbd-3e0c-47f0-960b-753b8c5cc7f9" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb11: UUID="e8c4bba7-459c-4f6b-8627-c084ae9fe1fe" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb12: UUID="f02ad769-fbff-49b1-8ff6-1144412d3ae0" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb13: UUID="6a7823c1-3ca3-4e56-b6b3-61a4a9bf5650" TYPE="ext4"
df -k
/dev/sdb8 2401840 407196 1872636 18% /
none 504304 260 504044 1% /dev
none 511172 584 510588 1% /dev/shm
none 511172 80 511092 1% /var/run
none 511172 0 511172 0% /var/lock
/dev/sdb11 235021 6186 216701 3% /tmp
/dev/sdb7 472036 48393 399272 11% /boot
/dev/sdb12 2882592 388612 2347548 15% /var
/dev/sdb13 28767364 176068 27130000 1% /res
/dev/sdb6 48062440 24521892 21099072 54% /home
/dev/sdb9 7693480 2443544 4859128 34% /usr
What is wrong in this configuration?
Best Answer
Note the comments about using a more current version of the ISO, but your problem may be that you have a separate /home partition. Assuming your "newinstall" is a user home directory, the partition starts with /newinstall,,, not /home in the line
The other potential issue is the enumeration of disks may differ at the grub prompt and in the final running system. You would expect your sdb to be the hd1 at the grub prompt, but sometimes, hd0 and hd1 seem to be reversed. I did try the fix mentioned above, since I have an iso on a mounted partition, and the boot succeeded, but with an external (non-bootable) USB hard disk plugged in, the hd0 (in my case for sda) had to be manually changed to hd1 for the boot to work. Without the USB disk, the hs0 worked.