General :: Lost My Grub / What To Do?
Apr 29, 2010I have faffed around with my hardware & software, and now when i fire up i get code...
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General :: Lost Grub - Can't Boot Ubuntu 9.10 ?
Mar 2, 2010Today I was forced to reformat windoze and of course lost grub so I can't boot ubuntu 9.10. I found two suggestions in previous posts which didn't work. One suggested using the install disk as a rescue disk and as root run grub. I entered sudo grub and the cmd was accepted but the cmnd grub was not found.
The second was to sudo grub -install and again grub was not found. Both these suggestions were for a win 98/mandrake installation.
Do I have to reinstall ubuntu? If so there is a problem in partitioning. Setup sees there is already an ubuntu os on the disk. In fact two of them. I forget why, but I reinstalled ubuntu and ended up with two in the grub menu. I was advised not to try to repair grub and didn't. Now I have two and it thinks I want to put the third one side by side, or erase and use the entire disk. There was a third choice but I forgot already exactly what it was and didn't like it anyway. If I erase and use the entire disk, won't I lose windoze? If I put them side by side I will then have three which which will waste disc space. The discs aren't that big being only about 10gb. I don't think I want to waste the space with a third ubuntu.
General :: Installed Win7 With Ubuntu 10.04 - Grub Lost
Jun 21, 2010I want to know about grub. Let start with the explanation of grub. I am using Ubuntu 10.04. Yesterday when I installed widows7, I lost my grub. Every time I tried to install windows running on Ubuntu machine, the grub is lost. Why is it so? How can I restore it (for Ubuntu 10.04)? Can any advance setup be made while installing windows, so that the grub is not lost?
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Aug 22, 2010I've resisted the urge to post for as long as I could. I use these forums quite often in finding answers to the numerous linux questions that I've had & found it to be a great resource. For some reason after an innocent reboot of my Fedora 12 Core system, GRUB decided it would no longer load the O/S. I was just getting a flashing _ in the top left of the screen. I thought there must be a problem with the partition table & have used the systemRescueCd to run testdisk (I have made a copy of the disk first to an image file using dd - don't worry I made sure I got the commands around the correct way!).
testdisk shows that I have a partition which is bootable & Primary, which appears to be the grub partition (I can list the files in test disk). However when I search the disk I get the following after it has found a couple of partitions. (it is an 80Gb disk)
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Ubuntu :: Grub - Lost My Windows Partition - Can't Find Menu.lst In /boot/grub
Nov 1, 2010I got ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx along with windows (dual boot) and using Grub. On my computer, I have my C:/ (programs) and D:/ (data). I've never used my D:/ before that day that I've lost my windows partition on my grub menu. I usually use my D:/ with windows. The first time I used my D:/ to store data with linux, I lost my windows option in my grub menu. I'm not sure what I did wrong but I do want to restore my windows option in my grub menu.
After "fdisk -l",
I checked in /boot/grub and there is no menu.lst to modify. how I can get back my windows option in my grub menu ?
Ubuntu :: Installed Debian In Pendrive Nd Lost Grub. No Grub If Pendrive Is Not Connected?
Mar 13, 2011So here is my situation..i was using win 7 and ubuntu 10.10 in my dell studio 1555. and i wanted to try out debian so i installed debian in my pendrive. so the grub was modified. when the computer starts it shows debian,ubuntu and win7 no problem.. but if i remove the pendrive, nothing comes up. it shows grub rescue>..
so now i cant start up unless i plug in the pendrive. what to do now to solve this problem?? i want to restore my grub to the previos state.
Ubuntu :: GRUB Lost After Disconnecting Hdd?
Feb 4, 2011i have this problem,i disconnected the linux drive because the pc couldnt recognize my wireless modem at the grub stage so ubuntu started (i have dualboot with windows) but logitech's drivers for it are on windows, so i disconnected by removing SATA cable and it logged into windows! after that my keyboard was alive again i tried to restart and log in to ubuntu but no GRUB!! (you may understand that i have some problems with my wireless stuff but thats another thing ) so how do i reinstall grub!
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Mar 15, 2011When I netinstall debian squeeze an asus netbook using using Unetbootin usb stick, at the end I am asked if I want to install grub on MBR. I agree, yes, but on booting I find that the netbook has not grub. I go back to usb stick that stole my grub and I use it to boot. I go to sunaptic and install grub, still nothing, the netbook won't boot without the usb stick.
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May 29, 2010I keep finding the same fixes on the web and they are not working. What I have/what I did: I have a dual boot PC. HD0 was XP. HD1 Kubuntu 10.04. I upgraded XP to Win 7. This jacked my Grub up, now all I can load is Win 7. I don't see the Grub menu anymore. I've been trying to reinstall Grub using varoius web pages like: [URL]
They seem to all be telling me the same thing but not working. I boot into a liveCD. I have to sudo apt-get install grub then I can do sudo grub. I follow the instructions:
sudo grub
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
I get "Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition".
Now if I'm understanding this right the reason for that is. HD0,0 is my first HD first partition (which is Win 7), and grub doesn't like windows. I tried swapping it out so it reads:
sudo grub
> root (hd1,0)
> setup (hd1)
I then quit and reboot. Win 7 loads. I don't see Grub.I am using 2 separate hard drives?
Ubuntu :: Upgraded To 10.04 And Lost Vista In Grub?
Jul 3, 2010I am a linux noob and have been searching for a couple months to a fix for my problem but now I just need I have two hard drives. One with vista and the other with ubuntu, storage space, and some other partition. I was dual booting windows and ubuntu jaunty jackalope then one day I decided it would be fun to upgrade to 10.04 so I did. When I tried loading windows from grub it just showed a blinking cursor forever. And while attempting to fix the problem by adding windows to the grub menu.lst file it dissapeared from the grub options.
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Ubuntu :: GRUB Lost Sight Of Windows XP?
Sep 1, 2010I did a dual boot install of Ubuntu 9.10. After that, when I rebooted my Windows XP was gone? I did update-grub and still nothing. I popped in the GRUB Super boot Disk 2 and browsed around, I think i found it but it says "Error: Invalid Signature". Iv googled and havent found a solution to this yet.
I booted off a XP CD into the recovery console, it sees my Windows partition and lets me get into it and browse all my files. So I know its there. I then tried fixmbr then fixboot and now all it loads is my Recovery Partition. I booted up SuperGrubDisk again and same results, it just sees my Ubuntu. I reinstalled grub and back to square 1. Then I tried a checkdsk /r and tried it all over again. Nothin'.
I have some encrypted files on my drive using EFS....i guess it would be ok to loose them, but I put a lot of work into them..
how I can "wakeup" my XP again?
Ubuntu :: Grub Menu Lost Vista?
Oct 17, 2010I have just loaded version 10.04 on to my laptop in a new partition so I now have Vista, 9.10 and !0.04. The grub menu is showing the two ubu versions but Vista is missing. I have run the commands from this link http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...00&postcount=3 but still no Vista.
maxwell@maxwell-laptop:~$ sudo apt-http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8008800&postcount=3get install os-prober
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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Ubuntu :: Lost GUI After Running Grub / Get It Back?
Feb 5, 2011Login in problems:
I was trying to fix the brightness on my toshiba T130 Satellite laptop and found these instruction [Note: I did not try XRANDR option]
If backlight control doesn't work with the 'XRANDR' option above, use this code...
Safe the file, run 'sudo update-grub' and reboot.
Credits: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...id/+bug/392948[/INDENT]http://www.linlap.com/wiki/toshiba+satellite+t130
However after running these instructions and rebooting my laptop I lost the GUI, and do not know how to get it back.
If it helps the loader screen with the 4 dots has gone slightly skewed, and I've downloaded the most recent update changes.
I can get GUI through recovery mode and running it in failsafex, but I don't think this is a good solution.
Fedora :: Grub - Lost Windows Boot Loader?
Aug 10, 2009I just installed Fedora 11 (I installed over the Fedora 10 installation I had already installed)..
-Before I would have Grub give the choice of Fedora 10 or Windows (Where Windows would load the Win Boot loader for my options of Windows 7 and Windows Vista)
-NOW: I have the same options.. But when i select Windows (It loads the Recovery partition) instead of the Windows Boot Loader...
Here is my fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 192 1536000 27 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 192 5414 41943040 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
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OpenSUSE Install :: Grub Lost On Installing Window7?
Apr 22, 2010I lost grub on installing window7 , used caf,s way Re-Install Grub Quickly with Parted Magic - openSUSE Forums to install but on typing find /boot/grub/menu.lst it does on find menu.lst however i could see the file by mounting the right drive. I dont want to fresh install suse to get grub
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Jan 24, 2010Just upgraded to 9.10 on a laptop with dead Vista which I lost when I moved over to UBUNTU some time ago. Never any problems but when fiddling at boot up tonight I accidentally selected to boot up the Vista loader which went into the Vista recovery, and since then the laptop only opens up the Vista Recovery, ie it does not go to the Grub. Any ideas on how I can get to boot UBUNTU again?
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May 14, 2010I would like to have your help.
I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 and lost my grub in between.
During the upgrade I installed grub on sda1.
Can you help me to recover my grub.
I inserted the contents of the RESULTS.txt here. code...
Ubuntu :: GRUB Lost After Re-installing Windows / Stop It To Do So?
Jun 9, 2010I need some help getting GRUB back after re-installing Windows. Now I don't have access to my ubuntu partition and the installation disk
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Dec 8, 2010I installed Ext2fsd from windows XP because I needed access to a text file on my ubuntu install. However, it didn't work because the drive is ext4 and all it listed was the root folders (/home, /var etc..) nothing any deeper.
I closed the app and continued working in windows.
Today I went to start my computer and it loaded the grub-rescue> prompt. I immediately tried to run "help" to find out what happened, however, grub reported the command as unknown.
I then ls and got a partial listing of the partitions.
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(hd0) (hd0,5) (hd0,1) (fd0)
So what do I do? How do I recover my linux partition? If the partition is bad - then how is the bios able to find the grub-rescue> prompt?
OpenSUSE Install :: 11.4 And Win7 Dual Boot - Grub Lost?
Apr 1, 2011I am trying to Dual-boot Windows & and OpenSUSE 11.4, and have run into walls all over the place. Here is what I did:
1. Windows 7 was already installed. (Don't like it, freezes all the time)
2. Installed OpenSUSE using default partition options.
3. Booted into OpenSUSE with no problem
4. Tried booting into Windows, no joy.
5. Got that figured out, now I can get into Windows.
6. GRUB is gone, so now I can't get back into OpenSUSE.
Ubuntu Installation :: Grub Configuration Lost - Unable To Boot
Jun 13, 2010I have accidentally started the recovery OS of my netbook, and messed-up grub. I can start the Netbook from a live CD, but I do not manage to restore grub to anything useful. Below the outcome of the Boot Info Script I have found in the forum:
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 0.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive
in partition #5 for /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst.
=> Syslinux is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
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Ubuntu Installation :: 9.04 - Lost Grub Legacy In Windows Reinstall
Jun 19, 2010I dual-boot ubuntu 9.04 and windows 7. I recently reinstalled windows, and it wiped grub-legacy off of my MBR. Reinstalling grub shouldn't be tough, right, especially with clear instructions? Anyway, I can't get anywhere with the official instructions here: [URL]. The first issue is that the current live CD has no program "grub" in terminal. I dug up an old live cd, but I couldn't get anything with the directions:
Find where Grub is. If this gives a few different answers then you will need to find the correct one, perhaps by trial-and-error.
find /boot/grub/stage1
That command didn't find anything, nor did some similar commands found on google.
So I'm really at a loss. What should I do?
-Can I install Grub 2 on my MBR? Will that work with 9.04?
-Can I access my 9.04 install, copy files to Windows, and then just format the partition and clean install 10.04?
Ubuntu Installation :: Lost Windows Entry In Grub After Update
Jul 9, 2010Ubuntu's update manager recently updated the Grub menu.lst file. It let me decide if I wanted to keep my old menu.lst or the new one. After deciding that I was fine with the new one, I found out that I can no longer boot into Windows 7. I had previously edited menu.lst so that Windows would be at the top of the list, however, I didn't notice that this had put it into the automagic update area, and I realize now that I should have just edited what the default number was instead of moving around the entries.
Anyways, I can no longer access my Windows 7 OS via Grub, and I was wondering what sort of fix I can have for this. I've tried running update-grub, but it hasn't fixed the problem. The Windows bootloader is on the first partition of the only hard drive, as far as I can remember.
Ubuntu :: GRUB Lost Option To Boot Into Ubuntun Natty?
May 28, 2011I installed Maverick alongside Windows 7. Then I upgraded Maverick to Natty, removed and reinstalled the latest kernel and ubuntu-desktop using Synaptic Package Manager. But now GRUB does NOT show any option to boot into Ubuntu Natty.
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Jan 10, 2009I added an entry to grub's menu.lst and reran grub (grub-install hd0) and now my background is gone and the entries just show up like on a normal console.
I searched the forums and I couldn't find anything. Does anybody know why this happened and how to fix it?
I have not changed anything in menu.lst except for adding the new OS.
OpenSUSE Install :: Lost Dual Boot Capability / Reinstall Grub?
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