Copied Ubuntu partition won't boot
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 7:51 am
Hi,
I recently got a new 500GB drive for my Toshiba laptop, and have been using BING to copy the partitions over from the original 250GB drive to the new drive.
I had an earlier thread about the configuration here:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ucf/vi ... ?f=8&t=293
I've been able to copy two of my Windows partitions over to the 500GB drive, and they boot ok, but I also had two Linux partitions, a Fedora partition and an Ubuntu partition (the Fedora partition appears as 10001 MB in Partition Work, and the Ubuntu partition appears as 10000 MB), so I copied those two partitions to the new drive, and then setup boot edit entries for each of them.
The copied Fedora partition booted fine, but the Ubuntu wouldn't. When I try to boot to that, I just get a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper-left of the display.
I've tried to re-copy the Ubuntu partition several times, but get the same problem each time.
The only thing strange, other than the fact that the Ubuntu partition doesn't boot, is that if I go to the Direct Boot menu, where it displays the partitions, all of the partitions say "Partition" in one column, except for the Ubuntu partition, which says "Partition-0".
Does anyone know what might be causing this problem?
Thanks,
Jim
I recently got a new 500GB drive for my Toshiba laptop, and have been using BING to copy the partitions over from the original 250GB drive to the new drive.
I had an earlier thread about the configuration here:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ucf/vi ... ?f=8&t=293
I've been able to copy two of my Windows partitions over to the 500GB drive, and they boot ok, but I also had two Linux partitions, a Fedora partition and an Ubuntu partition (the Fedora partition appears as 10001 MB in Partition Work, and the Ubuntu partition appears as 10000 MB), so I copied those two partitions to the new drive, and then setup boot edit entries for each of them.
The copied Fedora partition booted fine, but the Ubuntu wouldn't. When I try to boot to that, I just get a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper-left of the display.
I've tried to re-copy the Ubuntu partition several times, but get the same problem each time.
The only thing strange, other than the fact that the Ubuntu partition doesn't boot, is that if I go to the Direct Boot menu, where it displays the partitions, all of the partitions say "Partition" in one column, except for the Ubuntu partition, which says "Partition-0".
Does anyone know what might be causing this problem?
Thanks,
Jim