
Happy New Year Skunks, Now I have encountered an issue with Linux Mint "Cinammon" where it claims it does not have enough disk space. It's on dual boot with Windows 8. I have tried using Gparted to format a 300gig partition to ext4 then have the 4GB allocated to mint "extend" to it(and vice versa). That way Mint would have 304GB. Is there any way of making the linux partiton get to the 300gig? Or do I have to get rid of mint? Thanks in advance.

It is possibe under Gparted to merge the two, but that would take you a loong time, considering the disk sizes we are talking about. Why not just delete the two partitions (which would effectively merge them to one huge "unallocated" space of 304GB) then re-install mint all over again on the 304 gig partition. This is assuming you do not have any data you wouldn't want to lose on the Mint partition. -- Ndungi Kyalo On 7 January 2014 17:08, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Happy New Year Skunks,
Now I have encountered an issue with Linux Mint "Cinammon" where it claims it does not have enough disk space. It's on dual boot with Windows 8.
I have tried using Gparted to format a 300gig partition to ext4 then have the 4GB allocated to mint "extend" to it(and vice versa). That way Mint would have 304GB. Is there any way of making the linux partiton get to the 300gig? Or do I have to get rid of mint? Thanks in advance.
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Or just install mint on the 300 and convert the 4gig to swap. Sent from my iPad
On Jan 7, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
It is possibe under Gparted to merge the two, but that would take you a loong time, considering the disk sizes we are talking about. Why not just delete the two partitions (which would effectively merge them to one huge "unallocated" space of 304GB) then re-install mint all over again on the 304 gig partition. This is assuming you do not have any data you wouldn't want to lose on the Mint partition.
-- Ndungi Kyalo
On 7 January 2014 17:08, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote: Happy New Year Skunks,
Now I have encountered an issue with Linux Mint "Cinammon" where it claims it does not have enough disk space. It's on dual boot with Windows 8.
I have tried using Gparted to format a 300gig partition to ext4 then have the 4GB allocated to mint "extend" to it(and vice versa). That way Mint would have 304GB. Is there any way of making the linux partiton get to the 300gig? Or do I have to get rid of mint? Thanks in advance.
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Alright, I've run into another problem.. I googled how to uninstall linux from dual boot and used the method on Lifehacker.com. The first problem I ran into was the partition appeared as "free space" as opposed to "unallocated", even after multiple deletes. I rebooted the comp and now i have the following "error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue>(on the last line).. What happens now? On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
Or just install mint on the 300 and convert the 4gig to swap.
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 7, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
It is possibe under Gparted to merge the two, but that would take you a loong time, considering the disk sizes we are talking about. Why not just delete the two partitions (which would effectively merge them to one huge "unallocated" space of 304GB) then re-install mint all over again on the 304 gig partition. This is assuming you do not have any data you wouldn't want to lose on the Mint partition.
-- Ndungi Kyalo
On 7 January 2014 17:08, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Happy New Year Skunks,
Now I have encountered an issue with Linux Mint "Cinammon" where it claims it does not have enough disk space. It's on dual boot with Windows 8.
I have tried using Gparted to format a 300gig partition to ext4 then have the 4GB allocated to mint "extend" to it(and vice versa). That way Mint would have 304GB. Is there any way of making the linux partiton get to the 300gig? Or do I have to get rid of mint? Thanks in advance.
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... as guys run away ... :) send the link on lifehacker On 7 January 2014 17:49, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Alright, I've run into another problem.. I googled how to uninstall linux from dual boot and used the method on Lifehacker.com. The first problem I ran into was the partition appeared as "free space" as opposed to "unallocated", even after multiple deletes. I rebooted the comp and now i have the following "error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue>(on the last line).. What happens now?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
Or just install mint on the 300 and convert the 4gig to swap.
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 7, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
It is possibe under Gparted to merge the two, but that would take you a loong time, considering the disk sizes we are talking about. Why not just delete the two partitions (which would effectively merge them to one huge "unallocated" space of 304GB) then re-install mint all over again on the 304 gig partition. This is assuming you do not have any data you wouldn't want to lose on the Mint partition.
-- Ndungi Kyalo
On 7 January 2014 17:08, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Happy New Year Skunks,
Now I have encountered an issue with Linux Mint "Cinammon" where it claims it does not have enough disk space. It's on dual boot with Windows 8.
I have tried using Gparted to format a 300gig partition to ext4 then have the 4GB allocated to mint "extend" to it(and vice versa). That way Mint would have 304GB. Is there any way of making the linux partiton get to the 300gig? Or do I have to get rid of mint? Thanks in advance.
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Hahaha, noticed the same :) http://lifehacker.com/how-to-uninstall-windows-or-linux-after-dual-booting-5... On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jangita Nyagudi <jangita.nyagudi@gmail.com>wrote:
... as guys run away ... :) send the link on lifehacker
On 7 January 2014 17:49, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Alright, I've run into another problem.. I googled how to uninstall linux from dual boot and used the method on Lifehacker.com. The first problem I ran into was the partition appeared as "free space" as opposed to "unallocated", even after multiple deletes. I rebooted the comp and now i have the following "error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue>(on the last line).. What happens now?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
Or just install mint on the 300 and convert the 4gig to swap.
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 7, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
It is possibe under Gparted to merge the two, but that would take you a loong time, considering the disk sizes we are talking about. Why not just delete the two partitions (which would effectively merge them to one huge "unallocated" space of 304GB) then re-install mint all over again on the 304 gig partition. This is assuming you do not have any data you wouldn't want to lose on the Mint partition.
-- Ndungi Kyalo
On 7 January 2014 17:08, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Happy New Year Skunks,
Now I have encountered an issue with Linux Mint "Cinammon" where it claims it does not have enough disk space. It's on dual boot with Windows 8.
I have tried using Gparted to format a 300gig partition to ext4 then have the 4GB allocated to mint "extend" to it(and vice versa). That way Mint would have 304GB. Is there any way of making the linux partiton get to the 300gig? Or do I have to get rid of mint? Thanks in advance.
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I'd cut the chase and go with Areba's suggestion. The error message you are gettng implies you deleted (formatted) the root partition. Re-install. -- Ndungi Kyalo neno.co.ke ~ Your word O Lord, lights my $PATH. On 8 January 2014 13:01, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Hahaha, noticed the same :)
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-uninstall-windows-or-linux-after-dual-booting-5...
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jangita Nyagudi <jangita.nyagudi@gmail.com
wrote:
... as guys run away ... :) send the link on lifehacker
On 7 January 2014 17:49, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Alright, I've run into another problem.. I googled how to uninstall linux from dual boot and used the method on Lifehacker.com. The first problem I ran into was the partition appeared as "free space" as opposed to "unallocated", even after multiple deletes. I rebooted the comp and now i have the following "error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue>(on the last line).. What happens now?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
Or just install mint on the 300 and convert the 4gig to swap.
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 7, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
It is possibe under Gparted to merge the two, but that would take you a loong time, considering the disk sizes we are talking about. Why not just delete the two partitions (which would effectively merge them to one huge "unallocated" space of 304GB) then re-install mint all over again on the 304 gig partition. This is assuming you do not have any data you wouldn't want to lose on the Mint partition.
-- Ndungi Kyalo
On 7 January 2014 17:08, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Happy New Year Skunks,
Now I have encountered an issue with Linux Mint "Cinammon" where it claims it does not have enough disk space. It's on dual boot with Windows 8.
I have tried using Gparted to format a 300gig partition to ext4 then have the 4GB allocated to mint "extend" to it(and vice versa). That way Mint would have 304GB. Is there any way of making the linux partiton get to the 300gig? Or do I have to get rid of mint? Thanks in advance.
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Okay, the steps taken as of an hour ago were: 1. Run linux from a flash disk 2.) Install it an gave it almost 200gig.(This brought a gurb error but after several "re-installs" it succeeded). I was able to boot into windows 8 and it was alright. As we speak the grub error is now back and I am lost on how to solve it. I even Googled but the solutions given are quite unclear to me :) On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd cut the chase and go with Areba's suggestion. The error message you are gettng implies you deleted (formatted) the root partition. Re-install.
-- Ndungi Kyalo neno.co.ke ~ Your word O Lord, lights my $PATH.
On 8 January 2014 13:01, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Hahaha, noticed the same :)
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-uninstall-windows-or-linux-after-dual-booting-5...
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jangita Nyagudi < jangita.nyagudi@gmail.com> wrote:
... as guys run away ... :) send the link on lifehacker
On 7 January 2014 17:49, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Alright, I've run into another problem.. I googled how to uninstall linux from dual boot and used the method on Lifehacker.com. The first problem I ran into was the partition appeared as "free space" as opposed to "unallocated", even after multiple deletes. I rebooted the comp and now i have the following "error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue>(on the last line).. What happens now?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
Or just install mint on the 300 and convert the 4gig to swap.
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 7, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
It is possibe under Gparted to merge the two, but that would take you a loong time, considering the disk sizes we are talking about. Why not just delete the two partitions (which would effectively merge them to one huge "unallocated" space of 304GB) then re-install mint all over again on the 304 gig partition. This is assuming you do not have any data you wouldn't want to lose on the Mint partition.
-- Ndungi Kyalo
On 7 January 2014 17:08, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Happy New Year Skunks,
Now I have encountered an issue with Linux Mint "Cinammon" where it claims it does not have enough disk space. It's on dual boot with Windows 8.
I have tried using Gparted to format a 300gig partition to ext4 then have the 4GB allocated to mint "extend" to it(and vice versa). That way Mint would have 304GB. Is there any way of making the linux partiton get to the 300gig? Or do I have to get rid of mint? Thanks in advance.
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What is the grub error - This most likely is grub pointing to the wrong partition which is easily fixable ./Ok3ch On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com>wrote:
Okay, the steps taken as of an hour ago were: 1. Run linux from a flash disk
2.) Install it an gave it almost 200gig.(This brought a gurb error but after several "re-installs" it succeeded). I was able to boot into windows 8 and it was alright.
As we speak the grub error is now back and I am lost on how to solve it. I even Googled but the solutions given are quite unclear to me :)
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd cut the chase and go with Areba's suggestion. The error message you are gettng implies you deleted (formatted) the root partition. Re-install.
-- Ndungi Kyalo neno.co.ke ~ Your word O Lord, lights my $PATH.
On 8 January 2014 13:01, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Hahaha, noticed the same :)
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-uninstall-windows-or-linux-after-dual-booting-5...
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jangita Nyagudi < jangita.nyagudi@gmail.com> wrote:
... as guys run away ... :) send the link on lifehacker
On 7 January 2014 17:49, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Alright, I've run into another problem.. I googled how to uninstall linux from dual boot and used the method on Lifehacker.com. The first problem I ran into was the partition appeared as "free space" as opposed to "unallocated", even after multiple deletes. I rebooted the comp and now i have the following "error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue>(on the last line).. What happens now?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
Or just install mint on the 300 and convert the 4gig to swap.
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 7, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
It is possibe under Gparted to merge the two, but that would take you a loong time, considering the disk sizes we are talking about. Why not just delete the two partitions (which would effectively merge them to one huge "unallocated" space of 304GB) then re-install mint all over again on the 304 gig partition. This is assuming you do not have any data you wouldn't want to lose on the Mint partition.
-- Ndungi Kyalo
On 7 January 2014 17:08, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com>wrote:
> Happy New Year Skunks, > > Now I have encountered an issue with Linux Mint "Cinammon" where it > claims it does not have enough disk space. It's on dual boot with Windows 8. > > I have tried using Gparted to format a 300gig partition to ext4 then > have the 4GB allocated to mint "extend" to it(and vice versa). That way > Mint would have 304GB. Is there any way of making the linux partiton get to > the 300gig? Or do I have to get rid of mint? > Thanks in advance. > > > _______________________________________________ > skunkworks mailing list > skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke > ------------ > List info, subscribe/unsubscribe > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > ------------ > > Skunkworks Rules > http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 > ------------ > Other services @ http://my.co.ke >
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The error is "error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue>(on the last line)" I tried some codes for trying to point it to the correct partition all to no avail... On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
What is the grub error - This most likely is grub pointing to the wrong partition which is easily fixable
./Ok3ch
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com>wrote:
Okay, the steps taken as of an hour ago were: 1. Run linux from a flash disk
2.) Install it an gave it almost 200gig.(This brought a gurb error but after several "re-installs" it succeeded). I was able to boot into windows 8 and it was alright.
As we speak the grub error is now back and I am lost on how to solve it. I even Googled but the solutions given are quite unclear to me :)
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd cut the chase and go with Areba's suggestion. The error message you are gettng implies you deleted (formatted) the root partition. Re-install.
-- Ndungi Kyalo neno.co.ke ~ Your word O Lord, lights my $PATH.
On 8 January 2014 13:01, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Hahaha, noticed the same :)
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-uninstall-windows-or-linux-after-dual-booting-5...
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jangita Nyagudi < jangita.nyagudi@gmail.com> wrote:
... as guys run away ... :) send the link on lifehacker
On 7 January 2014 17:49, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Alright, I've run into another problem.. I googled how to uninstall linux from dual boot and used the method on Lifehacker.com. The first problem I ran into was the partition appeared as "free space" as opposed to "unallocated", even after multiple deletes. I rebooted the comp and now i have the following "error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue>(on the last line).. What happens now?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com > wrote:
> Or just install mint on the 300 and convert the 4gig to swap. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Jan 7, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote: > > It is possibe under Gparted to merge the two, but that would take > you a loong time, considering the disk sizes we are talking about. Why not > just delete the two partitions (which would effectively merge them to one > huge "unallocated" space of 304GB) then re-install mint all over again on > the 304 gig partition. This is assuming you do not have any data you > wouldn't want to lose on the Mint partition. > > -- > Ndungi Kyalo > > > On 7 January 2014 17:08, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Happy New Year Skunks, >> >> Now I have encountered an issue with Linux Mint "Cinammon" where it >> claims it does not have enough disk space. It's on dual boot with Windows 8. >> >> I have tried using Gparted to format a 300gig partition to ext4 >> then have the 4GB allocated to mint "extend" to it(and vice versa). That >> way Mint would have 304GB. Is there any way of making the linux partiton >> get to the 300gig? Or do I have to get rid of mint? >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> skunkworks mailing list >> skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke >> ------------ >> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe >> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks >> ------------ >> >> Skunkworks Rules >> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 >> ------------ >> Other services @ http://my.co.ke >> > > _______________________________________________ > skunkworks mailing list > skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke > ------------ > List info, subscribe/unsubscribe > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > ------------ > > Skunkworks Rules > http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 > ------------ > Other services @ http://my.co.ke > > > _______________________________________________ > skunkworks mailing list > skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke > ------------ > List info, subscribe/unsubscribe > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > ------------ > > Skunkworks Rules > http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 > ------------ > Other services @ http://my.co.ke >
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Hi Andrew, I Googled your issue and got lots of results giving fixes, tried them? On Thursday, 9 January 2014, Andrew Nduati wrote:
The error is "error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue>(on the last line)"
I tried some codes for trying to point it to the correct partition all to no avail...
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
What is the grub error - This most likely is grub pointing to the wrong partition which is easily fixable
./Ok3ch
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com>wrote:
Okay, the steps taken as of an hour ago were: 1. Run linux from a flash disk
2.) Install it an gave it almost 200gig.(This brought a gurb error but after several "re-installs" it succeeded). I was able to boot into windows 8 and it was alright.
As we speak the grub error is now back and I am lost on how to solve it. I even Googled but the solutions given are quite unclear to me :)
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd cut the chase and go with Areba's suggestion. The error message you are gettng implies you deleted (formatted) the root partition. Re-install.
-- Ndungi Kyalo neno.co.ke ~ Your word O Lord, lights my $PATH.
On 8 January 2014 13:01, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Hahaha, noticed the same :)
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-uninstall-windows-or-linux-after-dual-booting-5...
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jangita Nyagudi <jangita.nyagudi@gmail.com
wrote:
... as guys run away ... :) send the link on lifehacker
On 7 January 2014 17:49, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Alright, I've run into another problem.. I googled how to uninstall linux from dual boot and used the method on Lifehacker.com. The first problem I ran into was the partition appeared as "free space" as opposed to "unallocated", even after multiple deletes. I rebooted the comp and now i have the following "error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue>(on the last line).. What happens now?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
Or just install mint on the 300 and convert the 4gig to swap.
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 7, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
It is possibe under Gparted to merge the two, but that would take you a loong time, considering the disk sizes we are talking about. Why not just delete the two partitions (which would effectively merge them to one huge "unallocated
-- with Regards: blog.denniskioko.com <http://www.denniskioko.com/>

Hi, Sorry for the late reply Dennis. I did Google several option and even tried to re-install the Linux but there was a grub error that prevented it from being installed. After several tries we decided to sacrifice Windows and start all over. And so far so so good. Thanks alot. On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Andrew, I Googled your issue and got lots of results giving fixes, tried them?
On Thursday, 9 January 2014, Andrew Nduati wrote:
The error is "error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue>(on the last line)"
I tried some codes for trying to point it to the correct partition all to no avail...
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
What is the grub error - This most likely is grub pointing to the wrong partition which is easily fixable
./Ok3ch
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com>wrote:
Okay, the steps taken as of an hour ago were: 1. Run linux from a flash disk
2.) Install it an gave it almost 200gig.(This brought a gurb error but after several "re-installs" it succeeded). I was able to boot into windows 8 and it was alright.
As we speak the grub error is now back and I am lost on how to solve it. I even Googled but the solutions given are quite unclear to me :)
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd cut the chase and go with Areba's suggestion. The error message you are gettng implies you deleted (formatted) the root partition. Re-install.
-- Ndungi Kyalo neno.co.ke ~ Your word O Lord, lights my $PATH.
On 8 January 2014 13:01, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Hahaha, noticed the same :)
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-uninstall-windows-or-linux-after-dual-booting-5...
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jangita Nyagudi < jangita.nyagudi@gmail.com> wrote:
... as guys run away ... :) send the link on lifehacker
On 7 January 2014 17:49, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Alright, I've run into another problem.. I googled how to uninstall linux from dual boot and used the method on Lifehacker.com. The first problem I ran into was the partition appeared as "free space" as opposed to "unallocated", even after multiple deletes. I rebooted the comp and now i have the following "error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue>(on the last line).. What happens now?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
Or just install mint on the 300 and convert the 4gig to swap.
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 7, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
It is possibe under Gparted to merge the two, but that would take you a loong time, considering the disk sizes we are talking about. Why not just delete the two partitions (which would effectively merge them to one huge "unallocated
-- with Regards:
blog.denniskioko.com <http://www.denniskioko.com/>
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That's quite weird for the solutions to have failed. Well, at least stuff is working now, so I assume you are fine. On Monday, 13 January 2014, Andrew Nduati wrote:
Hi, Sorry for the late reply Dennis. I did Google several option and even tried to re-install the Linux but there was a grub error that prevented it from being installed. After several tries we decided to sacrifice Windows and start all over. And so far so so good. Thanks alot.
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'dmbuvi@gmail.com');>
wrote:
Hi Andrew, I Googled your issue and got lots of results giving fixes, tried them?
On Thursday, 9 January 2014, Andrew Nduati wrote:
The error is "error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue>(on the last line)"
I tried some codes for trying to point it to the correct partition all to no avail...
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
What is the grub error - This most likely is grub pointing to the wrong partition which is easily fixable
./Ok3ch
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com>wrote:
Okay, the steps taken as of an hour ago were: 1. Run linux from a flash disk
2.) Install it an gave it almost 200gig.(This brought a gurb error but after several "re-installs" it succeeded). I was able to boot into windows 8 and it was alright.
As we speak the grub error is now back and I am lost on how to solve it. I even Googled but the solutions given are quite unclear to me :)
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd cut the chase and go with Areba's suggestion. The error message you are gettng implies you deleted (formatted) the root partition. Re-install.
-- Ndungi Kyalo neno.co.ke ~ Your word O Lord, lights my $PATH.
On 8 January 2014 13:01, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Hahaha, noticed the same :)
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-uninstall-windows-or-linux-after-dual-booting-5...
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jangita Nyagudi < jangita.nyagudi@gmail.com> wrote:
... as guys run away ... :) send the link on lifehacker
On 7 January 2014 17:49, Andrew Nduati <nduatiandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
Alright, I've run into another problem.. I googled how to uninstall linux from dual boot and used the method on Lifehacker.com. The first problem I ran into was the partition appeared as "free space" as opposed to "unallocated", even after multiple deletes. I rebooted the comp and now i have the following "error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue>(on the last line).. What happens now?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
Or just install mint on the 300 and convert the 4gig to swap.
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 7, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
It is possibe under Gparted to merge the two, but that would take you a loong time, considering the disk sizes we are talking about. Why not just delete the two partitions (which would effectively merge them to one huge "unallocated
-- with Regards:
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