Ubuntu 9.10/Mint 8.0 "error: out of disk" on install

[prizmcreations]

Ok, I'm a noob, but I have successfully installed Unubtu on my netbook and a dual boot Vista/Ubuntu on my laptop. I'm now trying to get ANY Linux to install on my main system with no luck. I'm new to Linux, but been building and repairing Windows PC's for over a decade. My issue is that after I finish the install, reboot, and get to Grub (dual boot XP) and choose to boot Linux, it gives me the error: out of disk. I'm sure the first question will be if I left enough room to install it. I installed it on a 90GB partition and gave it 5GB swap, so that can't be the problem. If it helps, I'm running a Biostar board with 2 SATA hard drives (non raid) with 4 partitions each (including the swap file). I can run Linux from the Live CD and it's fine, but as soon as I try to reboot after the install, I get the error. I've also double checked the partition was correct (hd0 sda7). The install CD should be also fine since it was the one I used for the install on my laptop, not to mention I've tried 2 different disks of Ubuntu 9.10 along with trying Mint 8.0. Any help would be appreciated, please keep in mind I've only been using Linux for a few days and need to be walked through any help. I absolutely LOVE Linux so far, so much better than ANY Windows version even after being tweaked to the hilt! Thanks in advance!

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !


Boot up from Ubuntu LiveCD, open Terminal and execute this

sudo fdisk -l

Post output here.

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

[prizmcreations]

thanks for the fast reply, here's what I got:

Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x05624243

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 10199 81923436 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 10200 91201 650648565 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 18944 19559 4947988+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 19560 91201 575464333+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 10200 18943 70236117 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8ee03a7e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 28707 230588946 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 28708 91201 501983055 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 28708 47830 153605466 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 47831 66953 153605466 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb7 66954 91201 194772028+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

[devils casper]

Partition structure of your harddisk is fine. /dev/sda7 is root partition but partition location doesn't match with partition number assigned to it.

Boot up from Ubuntu LiveCD and post the contents of /boot/grub/grub.cfg file here.

cd /media
sudo mkdir sda7
sudo mount /dev/sda7 /media/sda7
cd /media/boot/grub
less grub.cfg

[prizmcreations]

Here's what I got:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cd /media
ubuntu@ubuntu:/media$ sudo mkdir sda7
mkdir: cannot create directory `sda7': File exists
ubuntu@ubuntu:/media$ sudo mount /dev/sda7 /media/sda7
mount: /dev/sda7 already mounted or /media/sda7 busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda7 is already mounted on /media/sda7
ubuntu@ubuntu:/media$ cd /media/boot/grub
bash: cd: /media/boot/grub: No such file or directory
ubuntu@ubuntu:/media$ less grub.cfg
grub.cfg: No such file or directory
ubuntu@ubuntu:/media$

[devils casper]

My Mistake ! Correct command is :

cd /media/sda7/boot/grub
less grub.cfg

[prizmcreations]

No problem, I really do appreciate the help!

#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s /boot/grub/grubenv ]; then
have_grubenv=true
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,7)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set a3899128-6563-459b-946d-62f6fe5dad07
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
grub.cfg

[prizmcreations]

Still having this problem. I thought maybe the issue was with having multiple SATA drives, so I left only the one with Windows currently, and same issue. I'd really like to get Ubuntu on this computer since it's by far my fastest PC and I'd really like to get 64-bit Ubuntu on it. Please someone help!