Sorry for what's probably a dumb question but it's been ages since I had to manually bang around on custom partitions. I need the following to work. I've got the following devices:
- /dev/sda <-- 500gb HDD
- /dev/sdb <-- secondary flash card, I need to leave it as-is
Inside of /dev/sda I want:
- /dev/sda1 ext4 /boot 10gb (this one should be empty post-install for later use)
- /dev/sda3 ext4 / 480gb (standard OS install)
- /dev/sda5 swap 10gb
So in Ubuntu's installer, I've got to choose a device for the boot loader installation. So far, I've tried /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, and /dev/sda3. Each ends up tossing me to a grub rescue prompt.
What am I boning up here?
The error is,
error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found.
Entering rescue mode…
grub rescue>
Is this sort of deployment out of the box not supported on Ubuntu?
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