[Novalug] grub2

[Miguel González Castaños]

On 29/03/2011 19:18, Miguel González Castaños wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     I have bought a SATA to IDE adapter so now I can plug my SATA drive
> in an IDE socket in my motherboard without using a PCI card for that.
> I'm using Ubuntu Server 10.4.
>
>     However now I can't boot the HD, grub can't find the bootable
> partition. The weird thing is that they look the same (sda partitions
> when I boot with the Ubuntu live cd)
>
>     I've been googling and grub2 is really a mess. It's not easy to
> figure out which file I have to edit to tell grub to boot from sda2.
>
>     Another alternative could be to reinstall without changing the
> current installation. Is that possible?
Nevermind, I got another SATA drive with Ubuntu installed (I did several 
tests) and It worked out of the box. Maybe the other install got corrupted.

Anyway, I have forced Ubuntu to boot on text mode but when vmware server 
service starts, it changes the mode from text to GUI mode, changing the 
resolution to an unreadable resolution (very tiny letters).

There is no way to run vmware service in text mode?

Miguel