Grub loader Crash [SOLVED]

[chris47]

Trying to install 3.5 on a new hd. but when it goes to install grub it says it crashed and it is a fatal error. Any suggestions..

[chris47]

Ok reinstalled and so far when bootloader comes up guess what? It will not load.. Personally I'm getting tired of the linux community bragging on how good their OS is when inrelity it is not.. I have never had so many issue trying to load a OS as I have with linux period.. Untill the linux community really wakes up and ralizes hey we have a problem, you never going to be as good a Windows or Mac.. I'm tired and going to give this one last try, before I say so long forever with the linux world.. BTW 3.3 is the best you have, it is the only one that did not give me any issue with installing period..

[Xanayoshi]

I'm sure there is an easier better way but I use Rescatux with Supergrub2 when I encounter this. This should find the image and then you can load and reinstall grub. Probably easier to reformat and try again. You may want to set everything up in gparted before installing.

[Xanayoshi]

How are you installing this? Is it just Ultimate? What speed did you burn your disk? You may also need to format the drive.

[chris47]

The disk was burned at lowest possible speed. I have a 2Tb drive that I seperated into 3 sperate drives in windows.. Then I choose one of the disk to use for 3.5. Instead of making seperate partitions, I choose to use whole disk on one of them.. During install I have a choicee of were to install grub. If I choose to have it on the windows partition, when it finishes it all will be there, but it won't load windows. I have to go into mb bios and change to the hd that windows is on then reboot.. On the second try I let 3.5 load grub were it wanted to. When the system booted and grub showed up, I choose 3.5 but it would not load. Plus it did not show my windows partition in the grub loader..

[Xanayoshi]

I'm pretty sure you should install grub on the root partition that you installed Ultimate Edition.

[pam]

Hi chris47

The most probable cause of failing to boot is that is that 550ti!!
Reported time and again, getting 550ti to get you to a booted up system has wrecked havoc and people have resorted to using a different GPU as the only solution.

Your best solution as of now is to try the liquorix kernel..
get to a tty by pressing ctrl+alt+f1 or f2 or by passing a kernel parameter to enter runlevel 3 during boot up..
download and install it:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8735

Once you are able to get to the gui install the proprietary gpu drivers from nvidia's website.

[Micro]

Well well. Lets try to be civil about this and get it in the right direction. Can you post your partition setup? This will help to examine the situation at hand...

[chris47]

Ok I have it installed finally. But there seems to be a few issues. 1)no grub so it boots into ultimate only, no option to go to windows. 2)everytime I try to activate nvidia drivers it fails. I did download the newest from nvidia to desktop, but how do you install from there..

[pam]

1> you can download a gui utility for editing grub files--from the terminal type this:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

Once installed you can open grub-customizer and edit the time,kernel to boot, boot order etc.....
TO know if grub has already detected and included windows and other stuff to the grub screen at boot up type this at terminal:

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sudo update-grub2

The above command will refresh the grub list for including the chainloaders for any other os that may be installed on your system.....
if windows shows in the list it means you need to adjust the timing of the grub file--- do this via grub-customizer...

2> The Nvidia driver that you downloaded has the attached .sh extension at the end of the file...........if not then it may be a compressed file with either .zip or .bzip2----extract the file..........then you will get the .sh extension file....
Now to install it open terminal and type:

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sudo su
 sh <Nvidia proprietary driver file-name>.sh 

...........press enter and it should start installation...carry on