Based your details, this doesn't sound like a hard drive
failure, but instead, like there is a gpt bootsector installed rather
than an mbr, or other unrecognisable bootsector.<br>One way to determine this would be to use either gparted
or fdisk on the drive to determine the mbr/gpt type, and if you do have
gpt in use, then install grub2 instead of regular grub to handle this.
If it is an mbr, but grub hasn't properly installed to it, you may need
to do a grub-install to change the mbr. Another area that could be an
issue is if the boot partition or drive isn't set to active, this could
cause a similar failure.<br>
<br>
"Installed UBUNTU 10.04 server, installation went fine but then after reboot I got Unable to mount root fs unknown block (0,0)."<br><br>There really isn't enough technical details here to do much more than guess, but I would also ask - why Ubuntu Server rather than something like Mythbuntu? (<a href="http://www.mythbuntu.org/">http://www.mythbuntu.org/</a>)<br>
<br>Last but not least, did you wipe out the partition table and mbr from the previous windows install (was it Win7 by chance?)? Or just install over it?<br><br>If you've left windows partitions on the drive, this can also be an issue to work around, in that you'll need to adjust how grub sees the bootsector and boot partition, drive order, and where you install the grub bootloader.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com">savithari@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Friends:<br><br>I have this decently good machine AMD BE2400. I have Windoze on it for my other folks at home to use as my pseudo-HTPC. I wanted to convert that to MYTH TV SERVER(It has 2 TB of storage)<br><br>Installed UBUNTU 10.04 server, installation went fine but then after reboot I got Unable to mount root fs unknown block (0,0).<br>
<br>Cleaned out that install put the DEBIAN SQUEEZE on the machine. The installation went fine but this time also after reboot I am getting Unable to mount root fs unknown block (0,0).<br><br>Before you folks say anything, this is quite a new Hard drive, may be 1.5 year old, very light use. So bad hard drive is ruled out.<br>
<br>Any hints how I can fix this ?<br><font color="#888888"><br>-Narahari<br>
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