My system doesn't boot anymore, when I turn on the laptop, instead of the normal grub screen, i get the following:
"error: file not found Entering rescue mode... grub rescue> _"
I tried also to make a bootable usb w/ unetbootin but all the distros failed to load w/ a syslinux boot error message so I really need to fix the existing debian installation to get access to my files i need for the university, it's debian stable (6.0.4) on hp mini 210 ....
Have win 7 on one drive and ubuntu on 2nd drive then son goes and deletes partition that Ubi was in ,now cannot access any system all i get is grub rescue on screen and i cannot boot with any thing taking a guess the grub bootloader has died and made a mess of the windows bootloader.
I was messing around with the partitions and accidentally y deleted the ubuntu partition! I have Windows 7 as a dual boot but I can't access to that OS anymore. The message that I get is: error: no such partition. grub rescue>
I am fresh to Ubuntu and am having trouble getting it to boot on my system. I normally run XP, but recently added a second internal hard drive and installed Ubuntu on it. The installation went fine and upon initial reboot I received -
GRUB loading. error: no such disk grub rescue>
I am wondering if there is an issue between two different operating systems upon boot. I am not familiar with GRUB commands.
I previously had Ubuntu installed on my MBR. I deleted that partition (32 GB), resized my Mac partition back up to (250 GB), and then reduced it to 200 GB and created a new one with 50 GB via BootCamp to install Windows 7 from a DVD that I burnt (I got a Windows executable from MSDNAA that I used with Wine to obtain the ISO image. Insert rant about having to download Windows with a Windows executable here.).
I've tried burning two different DVDs. I used Burn on my Mac to burn a data DVD+R with the HFS+ and Joliet filesystems (I think) and then tried again with the ISO9660 and UDF filesystems. The latter has not shown any signs of working besides mounting on OS X. The first DVD would not boot whenever I held 'C' down at time of boot. So I went into BootCamp and clicked "Start Installation". It restarted my computer and this is where the real confusion comes up. I think that it tried booting via the empty partition. The reason I say this is that there are remnants of GRUB and when I boot, I get a screen that says this: error: unknown filesystemrub rescue>
I have a pc that was running with the latest version of ubuntu and i wanted to install just vista for somereasons.
And what i did is to format the main driver and try to boot it from vista CD and as you may guess i have an error that says: unknown file system grub rescue
Each time i start the pc. I have an ubuntu live cd and also the vista cd, so what should i do now? the vista cd dosnt boot and the same screen appears all the time.
I'm experimenting a bit with my fedora, so I need to enter rescue mode very often. Every time I want to enter rescue mode, I need to insert fedora DVD Is there a way to install rescue mode on my hard drive so I could boot into rescue mode from GRUB?
I'm using a dual boot system with Fedora and Windows XP. Until a few days ago i could boot in Windows or Linux choosing the option during boot. I have updated Fedora with common updates these days and now i can't boot in Windows anymore, because there are no entry for it anymore to the boot menu.
The graphical boot configuration tool (i'm using Gnome) only lists three different kernel for Fedora but any entry for a Windows partition. Here is how my disk appears:
I'd like to know why this occur and, mostly, which is the most easy way to restore the dual boot
I updated yesterday and now when I start my laptop it goes in to grub rescue mode. I have booted from a 'live cd' and thought I could repair grub from there. In gparted however the partition with ubuntu (sda1) is seen as unknown file system, in terminal when I list the partition table it shows up as FAT16 type. When I try a grub-install it gives this error message:
I recently switched from fedora 14 to 15. Today my computer suddenly shut down during an update, as I thought it overheated I decided to clean the cooling system and reapply thermal paste. However, now the system won't boot anymore ("kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown-block").
I would like to either solve this booting problem, or mount the fedora 15 filesystem and recover some files. Whichever is easier.
I have another drive with fedora 14 (antec below) which boots fine:
I was trying to install Fedora to dual boot with Vista in the middle it said that the installation failed and now it will not run grub to let me choose between Windows and Mint which I had installed. All that happens is it shows a command line and says "grub rescue>"
I've (attempted) to create a quad-boot on my MacBook Pro (if the specs are needed, its- 8gbs RAM, core i7, 500GB hard drive @ 7200 rpms, and its running the latest update of snow leopard). I have installed rEFIt and had installed Windows 7 as well as ubuntu 10.10. Everything was working great until I tried loading Linux Mint 10. Linux Mint got rid of Ubuntu in the rEFIt boot menu. I thought the added Linux Mint partition had just pushed out Ubuntu, so I deleted the Linux Mint partition, and re-sized the Macintosh HD. Now whenever I try to boot Windows 7 or Ubuntu, I get something along the lines of "invalid file system: Grub rescue" What do I do?
Ubuntu 9.10 was set up to handle the booting selection - previously I thought it was xp but Ubuntu 9.10 "did" it. The system started out as a xp / ubuntu 9.10 dual boot on a 400gb drive. xp has 210gb, ub has 80 and their is a 100gb shared storage. Xp was installed first and then I followed a guide over at linuxconfig.org to get ub installed so that I could select which OS was wanted at boot. Ubuntu manages the boot up menu (Went back to look at my notes from the original setup) The owner tried to update to ub 11.04 and afterall was said and done the machine now boots to the message
error file not found grub rescue I can't say if 11.04 was properly installed or not. Ask whatever you like and I'll give the best answer I can. I think the xp install is okay but I can't say for certain as I don't know how to boot it outside the bootmanager at startup. Data has been saved so if I have to blow it all away and start over I can but I'm hoping I won't have to.
I've got Ubuntu 10.04 installed on one partition, and Windows Vista on another. I was messing around with my partitions, and now I can't boot to either one. I just get an error when I boot up on GRUB which says "error: no such partition", and then a prompt saying 'grub rescue>'. I've read up on other people's posts, and they said that I should reinstall GRUB from a livecd, but that doesn't look like it does anything. It seems that GRUB is trying to boot from hd0,8, and that doesn't exist anymore. I can change the 'root' and 'prefix' variables to the right partitions, but the 'boot' or 'chainloader' command doesn't work. You should be able to boot from 'grub rescue>', because that's what it's for, right?
I just want to be able to boot into Ubuntu, not Windows.
PS: Sorry if I'm specifying way too much information(or not enough), I'm fairly new to forums.
Yesterday I made a thread about going back to Windows as I'm giving this laptop to a friend. Anyway, after I finally got Windows to re-install I'm now stuck with "grub rescue" instead of the OS booting. Is there anyone who knows a way I can get rid of grub rescue and get Windows to boot?
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.
I installed Ubuntu server with software raid 5 and all went well. Then I figured I should test the raid by these instructions [URL] As a result mdadm would create /dev/md0 with 3 drives and 1 spare. Confused on this matter I just reinstalled Ubuntu. Now, I'm greeted with a grub rescue prompt at boot. Running set displays the correct parameters and ls (md0)/ shows the content of /. However, ls (md0)/boot/ shows no content what-so-ever. If I boot from the livecd there are all the files needed in /boot. I've tried running grub-install on all the drives without results.
Month or so ago I ran into BusyBox, so while reinstalling Ubuntu 10.04 onto to that first FreeBox HD from a live CD, while manually adding & editing a new partition with free space to put Ubuntu into, I must have accidentally edited pre-existing partitions possibly deleting everything off of that HD. After reinstalling, I went into the terminal & ended up trying to recover or restore the partitions that I thought were lost or deleted or struck sick (since it had BusyBox). But that broke it. Now, after breaking that first HD of mine, when booting, I run into the following at startup:
error: no such partition. grub rescue>
Right now, I have that first HD as my slave HD I can no longer find this HD, I can't load into it. It might have died because it was making noises the last several weeks. But just yesterday when trying to get into this same first HD from Ubuntu, I'd receive this message:
Error mounting: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so
It happened when I updated my php5.4 to 5.5 version on my small Debian 7 server. I am only getting GRUB right after BIOS boot pass, then none of the keys working even C or Shift buttons to go to command promt except CTRL+ALT+DEL.
I have tried rescue mode with live CD, selected myserver/root/ partition to install GRUB but not worked.
How to recover my server, I have some important data in it and I don`t want to destroy them.
i have dual booted ubuntu with windows. but after a few days i realized that ubuntu was too slow for my system and then decided to uninstall it and planned on installing it later. So i deleted the partitions on which ubuntu was installed. I rebooted the system and the grub rescue promt appeared, i already knew the work around was to restore the windows MBR using the live cd i used to install ubuntu or the Windows installer. But the main problem is my DVD suddenly stopped working . So my question is, can i boot windows using the promt? is there any commands? or can i uninstall grub using the rescue promt?
So I had Ubuntu Server installed and I decided to make some new partitions using gparted via a live usb of Ubuntu desktop. And so I think messed up pretty badly. Ubuntu Server won't boot and I get the following error followed by a grub rescue promt:
Code:Diskette drive 0 seek failure error: file not found grub rescue > To me, it seems like some boot files may be missing if not the whole system. After I made the partitions, the live USB of Ubuntu was still working fine until I rebooted.So here is the bigger issue, I figured I would just reinstall everything all over again, but instead I can't.
I just installed Ubuntu on a computer but it can't boot, it ends with a greb-rescue error. What shall I do? Here's my fstab and my sudo blkid. I did an ubuntu side installation with xp.
Le FSTAB # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 # / was on /dev/sda5 during installation UUID=3a307ad3-99a9-4301-8ad0-f601ef9d157c / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation UUID=5b3ff501-f07c-4c2e-ac2d-a238b599cbe2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
I cant boot from my External HD with ubuntu installed. I get this message: error: file not found. grub rescue>
In an attempt to fix this problem, I tried using the following sudo command: sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt sda5 does not exist, I tried 4, then 3, then 2, and it worked, but that was a partition of my internal HD containing windows 7.
I also typed in: sudo grub-install --root directory=/mnt /dev/sda not I get the following error when I try to boot from my internal HD: error: no such device: 57288a24-5d12-4fb1-b27e-eb09a1f9b7c6. grub rescue> Is there a way to get grub to boot into windows 7 again?
When I type: sudo fdisk -l I receive a list of my drives and their partitions, This is my assumption as to what drive is
Which: /dev/sda1 = Vista loader, for Windows 7 /dev/sda2 = Windows 7 (At least I hope its still there.) /dev/sdb1 = Bootable Flash Drive. /dev/sdc1 = External HD.
The text from the terminal is as follows: Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x8da4c52c
Device, Boot, Start, End, Blocks, Id, System. /dev/sda1, 1, 1355, 10877952, 27, Unknown. /dev/sda2 *, , 1355, 38914, 301961224, 7, HPFS/NTFS. (The commands changed this from FAT32) Disk /dev/sda: 8054 MB, 8054636032 bytes 8 heads, 32 sectors/track, 61451 cylinders Units = cylinders of 256 * 512 = 131072 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier:0x00000000
Eventually I would like to fix the error I get when I boot from the external, I would like to to boot to ubuntu, but for now I am concerned with getting my internal HD to boot windows 7. Where I originally found the terminal commands to begin with. I think sda5 is where linux was installed in the example I found, and didn't realize it.
So earlier today I was running out of space on my regular Windows 7 partition and I played around with extending it. I ended up somehow deleting grub and messing up my entire system. I've spent the last 2 hours looking for the answer to this and everyone has been saying to boot from a live disk and fix it that way.
Well, I've tried everything, the only way I can boot right now is via USB and it will NOT allow me to. I checked on other computers and even re-installed and formatted by external hard drive to try and get it to work and it refuses. I've changed my BIOS to boot from USB so I have no idea as to why this is happening. Also, I've tried using the "ls" command to find my partition via "ls (hdX,Y)/" and all of them come up as unknown filesystems.
I'm inexperienced in Debian. I have a dual-boot machine (64-bit, Debian 7.3, Windows 7, legacy boot) and encouter a problem at boot ever since I completed the installation of Debian 7.3 alongside the exising Windows 7. This machine has six hard drives: two are intended for ntfs storage of general data (raided together by RAID1); two more are intended for ext4 storage of general data (also raided together by RAID1); the fifth contains the Windows OS files and the sixth contains the Debian OS files. The problem is that I arrive to the grub_rescue each time at boot, seeing the message:
GRUB loading. Welcome to GRUB!
error: no such device: e081517b-3399-4067-9294-8f0686f753ca. Entering rescue mode... grub_rescue>
