I've just bought a new HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 a few days ago, and have been trying to install Ubuntu Server 14.04LTS on it since then, but I'm having an issue where it's not booting after install.
I'm attempting to install to a USB stick plugged into the internal USB port, from a stick with the standard 14.04LTS iso dd'd onto it. Installation starts and completes without incident, but after reboot I get dropped into a grub rescue shell.
During installation my source drive is at /dev/sda and my target is at /dev/sdb. I tried different disk set-ups:
- Guided partitioning with LVM
- Guided partitioning without LVM
- A 24GiB ext4 marked bootable partition at '/' and a 8GiB swap (in that order)
- A 1GiB ext4 marked bootable at '/boot/', 23GiB ext4 at '/' and a 8 GiB swap (in that order)
When it prompts me where to install grub, I tried both /dev/sdb (so it installs to MBR) and /dev/sdb1 (so it installs to the partition) for at least the last two options.
When I install grub to the disk, it simply doesn't boot (I've since read that installing grub to the partition is meant for when you're chain loading, so I guess that could be expected). If I install it to the MBR, I get dropped into a 'grub rescue' shell. From this shell, I can see the following (I'm writing this from memory from what I tried on the set-up with a single 24GiB system partition):
> ls
(hd0) (hd0,msdos1)
> ls (hd0)
(hd0): Filesystem is unknown
> ls (hd0,msdos1)
(hd0,msdos1): Filesystem is ext2
> ls (hd0,msdos1)/boot
error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'
> ls /
[file list that looks like the root of a linux install]
> ls /boot
[file list that looks like the boot dir of a linux install, including grub folder, kernel and initial ramdisk]
> insmod normal
error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'
> normal
'normal': command not found
> linux /boot/vmlinuz[kernel version goes here]
'linux': command not found
So this is where I'm stuck...
What am I doing wrong?
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