General :: Cannot Boot, Stuck In GRUB Line-editing?
Sep 3, 2010
After my last update in my ubuntu, I had a problem. (As almost everytime that I update it)
When I select to boot ubuntu, it doesn't work.It shows something like:"GNU GRUB version 1.97"beta 4[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions.Anywhere else TAB lists possible device/file completions]
sh:grub> "And I don't know how to make it work.I tried to follow this tutorial:[URL]I got an error message saying that the file couldn't be found. And if I skip it, when I type "boot" the system reboots and comes to the same place I was before.
I've also tried to set another partitions like
View 11 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
Jun 6, 2010
I have an old laptop that I installed EasyPeasy Lucid on. I have never used Grub2 as my other Ubuntu installs still use Grub Legacy. I have studied all the tutorials which instruct that the grub.cfg file should not be edited directly.This old laptop has one of the dreaded Intel graphics chips for which the kernel automatically loads the i915 module. Of course (like a multitude of others with Intel graphics and Lucid) I booted into a black screen but knew the workaround was to enable mode setting through grubI used the
Code:
i915.modeset=1
and added it to /etc/default/grub line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, just after "quite splash", just
[code]....
View 9 Replies
View Related
Mar 26, 2011
I am running Natty Alpha 3. I used Update Manager to install something (not sure what it was), then I restarted, but instead of listing all the kernels, it gave me a command line. I don't know what happened and how to use it.
View 6 Replies
View Related
Nov 23, 2010
I have tried hours of followed fixes for my situation to no avail.I am stuck in grub line command and cannot get out.I have tried everything under the sun and nothing. every command comes back with disk read error, unrecognized command, etc.I am about ready to throw the mini 9 through the wall.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Nov 3, 2010
I just installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu, dual booting with Windows 7 on one partition, but I'm having problems with Grub. I think I put it in the wrong place when I installed it. At first, it would just boot into Windows. But with SuperGrub I could boot into Ubuntu.
This was the result of the boot info script:
Code:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
Boot Info Summary:
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda
sda1:
File system: ntfs
[Code]...
View 2 Replies
View Related
May 31, 2011
I had a dual boot with Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows vista. Upon upgrading to windows 7, i found my grub to be replaced, with windows boot loader. So i booted from a live USB with Ubuntu 11.04 and followed steps as follows.
1. Mounted the partition where i have ubuntu 11.04
2. mount | tail -1
3. sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/0d104aff-ec8c-44c8-b811-92b993823444 /dev/sda
4. Reboot
On rebooting, I find grub to open in terminal mode, and does not allow me to log in either in windows or in Ubuntu! All i get is a grub terminal [ Minimal bash-like editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible completions of a device/filename. ]
View 1 Replies
View Related
Mar 31, 2010
I installed Windows XP Pro and RedHat Linux Enterprise 5 on my PC for my purpose. The PC is used by other family members too and they need only Windows OS for browsing. It is becoming problem for them to reboot after the PC enters into Linux by default. I am still learning Linux and I want to edit the /boot/grub.conf file to make Windows as default OS to boot. The following is the content of my grub.conf file (FYI):
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
[code]....
View 4 Replies
View Related
Mar 21, 2011
Ubuntu didn't start up all of a sudden. It got error and stuck at : Minimal BASH-like line editing - Ubuntu Forums. I tried many ways suggested to go into menu mode but failed. I followed online solutions.. but none of them helped. I tried to list all partitions and I got this: ls
(memdisk), (hd0), (hd0,msdos), (fd0)
i tried
root (hd0)/boot , it said unknown filesystem
root (hd0,msdos)/boot, but it's a windows partition
root (f0)/boot, it said read error
The setup is dual boot with wubi, so i logged on to windows7 and installed partition magic, but i couldn't see the linux parittion, the whole harddisk is 500G, but only 2xxG is visible in NTFS. I used liveCD to boot the system, but when i run sudo fdisk -l, i didn't see anything. I have no idea why it happened, and the last successful log on was in Ubuntu, so i doubt it's due to windows update. I am going to try Solution #1 (10.04) in wubi megathread. Can anyone suggest what has actually gone wrong? WIll i able to recover the data in my linux parition given partition magic cannot see it?
View 6 Replies
View Related
Jun 14, 2010
I have installed RHEL5, solved the problems around it and started to set up the GRUB. I have set the menu.lst with simple
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
mkeactive
chainloader +1
and tried to boot the Win7 on that partition. NO LOADER came up and since that moment
Grub is only in "Minimal BASH-like line editing" mode. I have tried all of I have googled, nothing have worked. There is a problem with even finding /boot/grub/stage2, or anything else, grub won't let me mount any partition. When I try to find any file, it says file not found. It is important to say that all I did to cause this was change in menu.lst
rootnoverify (hd1,1) to rootnoverify (hd1,0)m nothing else! There is no logic in this....
View 9 Replies
View Related
Mar 15, 2011
Ok now, whenever I try to boot up Ubuntu (I also have Windows 7 installed), this message pops up:
Code:
[ Minimal BASH-Like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a
[code]....
View 9 Replies
View Related
Jul 5, 2010
I've just installed Ubuntu 10.04. In previous versions I could edit the grub menu (menu.lst). Where can I find the menu.lst or it's equivalent in 10.04 ?
View 3 Replies
View Related
May 15, 2011
Running Ubuntu 10.10. My desktop environment is screwed up and won't let me use the keyboard or mouse at the login screen. How can force a command prompt during boot?
Here's a method:
Alt-SysRq-e - Requests kernel kill all processes except init.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jun 14, 2011
It used to be with (old) grub you could hit a function key and add a runlevel option to boot a console, but I don't know how to do this here, wanting not to edit the grub config file, as seems the only apparent option: I'm trying to boot into SimplyMepis where there is no rescue menu option, so need the prompt?
View 4 Replies
View Related
May 7, 2010
I used to be a pro at editing Grub's menu.lst file so I could have my menu look clean, simple, and easy to read. Now that I have set up 10.04 (Working beautifully now after a couple setbacks) the menu.lst file is no longer where it used to be (/boot/grub/menu.lst)
How do I edit my boot menu now?
View 5 Replies
View Related
Jun 1, 2011
I have a problem with booting my Ubuntu System.I have installed the new version of Ubuntu(11.04) next to Windows XP on my PC. When I restarted my PC I have selected "Ubuntu" from the boot menu. When I did that following massage arrived at my screen:"GNU GRUB version 1.99"rc1-13ubuntu3Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command complections. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file complectionsgrub> _"
View 7 Replies
View Related
Jan 20, 2009
the boot of my server is stuck at the message "GRUB"
I've allready tried :
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/cciss/c0d0
but with no improvement. What else can I try?
View 6 Replies
View Related
Jul 11, 2010
I just installed ubuntu today, and it asked me to install over 200 security updates. When I finished that, it asked me to restart the computer so that the updates will take effect. After Dell (it's a Dell computer) booted, I got a message reading:
"Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else, TAB lists possible device or file completions."
View 6 Replies
View Related
Apr 6, 2010
I want to install pgplot on ubuntu 9.10 but I have some errors after editing makefile in line 880
replaced "pndriv.o : ./png.h ./pngconf.h ./zlib.h ./zconf.h" by
"pndriv.o : /usr/local/include/png.h /usr/local/include/pngconf.h /usr/local/include/zlib.h /usr/local/include/zconf.h"
and running code "make" I get this error :
No rule to make target `/usr/local/include/png.h', needed by `pndriv.o'. Stop.
also I tried to uncomment this line got another error :
make: *** [pndriv.o] Error 1
and also replace "pndriv.o : ./png.h ./pngconf.h ./zlib.h ./zconf.h" by "pndrive.o : "
what should I do ?
View 14 Replies
View Related
Nov 26, 2010
I lost power during my Ubuntu update and when I powered back up ubuntu was broken. Now the stupid bit. My hdd was partitioned into 3 bits, vista os, data, and ubuntu. In vista I deleted the ubuntu part and merged it with the data part. Now when I power up my computer it goes straight to a black screen that says...
error : no such partition.
grub rescue> I have looked through the forums for an answer to my problem but to no avail. When I put the ubuntu live cd in and turn back on itjust goes to the same screen. I'm a novice to the world of computers and need any help you can offer.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jan 18, 2011
I am a new Ubuntu user, and I am attempting to set Windows 7 64 bit as my default OS in the boot loader instead of Ubuntu 10.10. I have entered the command gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst into terminal, and the menu.lst file does open. However, this file appears to be completely blank, which does not seem to make sense and is preventing me from changing the boot order.
View 4 Replies
View Related
May 7, 2009
I am using CentOS 5.2 with GRUB booting a software RAID configuration. The first disk is md0 and is mirrored across sda1 and sdb1.I manually re-installed grub using grub-install and the machine will no longer boot off of the HD. The grub menu comes up, I can select my kernel the machine then jumps to loading the initrd and hangs.It will go no further. I have a live DVD that can boot from the HD. If I use that to first boot from the DVD, then specifiy the HD, it shows the same grub menu and then the machine boots fine w/o the initrd hang.I have tried re-installing grub but not been able to get the machine to work again w/o the DVD.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Nov 20, 2010
my Setup is Fedora 14 x64 + radeon hd 4830 i've downloaded .run package from ati site with latest driver for x64 systems. installed it, but didn't edited grub.conf becouse i didn't understood anything there (probably didn't spent enough time to get things understand) Now i've lost possibility to enter my Fedora system. during boot it lost it's modern blue boot screen (with filling drop), it was replaced by standard old boot screen with triple-color stripe. after this boot screen monitor start blinking going on and off. and on last step i'm getting "Fedora 14 boot bla bla bla something" on screen. nothing works except Ctrl+Alt+Delete. system reboots showing successful daemons shutting sequence. How can i edit grub menu from initial grub screen is it possible to it's own 'e' option or 'c' from grub command line?
View 4 Replies
View Related
Feb 2, 2011
I was dual-booting XP and Ubuntu 10.10 for a while, but as I never used Ubuntu it was just taking up space, so I figured I'd get rid of it. I used a partitioning tool from inside XP to remove the Ubuntu partition, forgetting that I used GRUB2 every time I booted to select which OS to load. Now when I start my computer I get stuck at the "grub rescue>" screen.After searching for solutions to this problem all of them said to either use the Windows XP CD to fix the Master Boot Record or reinstall Ubuntu, but I dont have my XP CD and there isnt enough room on my hard drive anymore for a Ubuntu install. Is there anything else I can do to fix this?
View 5 Replies
View Related
Feb 20, 2010
I accidently deleted my ubuntu partition, and when boot I get this message:GRUB loading.error:unknown filesystemgrub rescue>I can't get into my bios options either... I just see the MSI splash screen and it cuts right to this error message.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jul 27, 2010
During my several experiment on linux I accidentally put the default runlevel to the value 6..thus before starting its going to restart ..currently running mint 9. there is only one way that somehow i can edit that file from grub command line.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Nov 4, 2010
Out of curiosity and stupidity, I configured 2 extended partitions to LVM in gparted. Now, I can't boot into X window, and there's only GRUB command line during boot.
View 5 Replies
View Related
Oct 12, 2010
I have to edit the grub.conf as there was a issue in running in virtual box, so i went to edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file ( centos )and run
[Code]...
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jul 26, 2011
i updated my nvidia driver im running ultimate gamers edition 2.6 and now it only boots as far as terminal 1. i am a newbie and am completely lost. of course i have searched google high and low and seems to be a common problem however i have tried editing the xconf/xorg cnt remeber the name iv tried using the restore mode which is second on the boot list and have tried using the live cd to boot into graphics mode none seem to do the trick through using the live cd or something as the commands for the terminal are a pain for me also i would put up the xconf file up but i only no how to view it through the cd i dnt no how to copy it to usb to place on here
View 5 Replies
View Related
May 27, 2011
When I turned on my laptop today, instead of showing me the boot menu..it show grub command line..ie
Code:
grub>_
I have no knowledge about grub command line..still i tried to boot into my fc14 ..using these steps given here
[Code]...
Thus boot configuration files have been lost..i think I have to install Fedora again
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jan 9, 2010
i have successfuly installed ubuntu karmic inside my windows 7. After an update, i restarted it. but it didnt boot ubuntu. instead it shows grub's command line. what should i do? all of my java projects/programs is in there.
View 2 Replies
View Related
