Ubuntu :: Fix GRUB From LiveCd Won't Work?
May 23, 2010
I have a Windows / Ubuntu dual boot system and I recently upgraded my system to 10.04 from the package manager. I ran into what seem to be not an unusual issue with the new version of GRUB2 being installed hosing up the MBR. When I try to boot now I get a message stating: the symbol 'grub_puts_' not found.
There are a few posts and solutions out there about the issue... but the most promising ones, using the Ubuntu 10.04 liveCD don't work for me. The GRUB changes don't seem to stick. It's almost like I'm doing all the grub command line work in a virtual system that gets wiped out as soon as I reboot.
For reference, here is one of the posts I've been working w/, some links in there seemed very promising, but again nothing seem to stick for me from the liveCD:[URL]..Should I be using some rescue disk of some sort? Or is there a way to boot directly to a command line from the Ubuntu CD menu?
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Oct 17, 2010
So Im running windows, but I want to switch back to ubuntu. I have a spare hard drive for my laptop, so this is a basic one partition on one drive setup. The problem I'm having is the cd or dvd will not boot. I keep getting the grub error, rescue mode. I've read many of the other posts, but they are dual/triple boot, multiple drives, upgrades etc. I don't need any of that nonsense, just a simple explanation as to why the many copies of 10.10, and one of 10.4 give me the same error.
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Jan 20, 2010
I was thinking of trying to install Window XP in a dual boot fashion but with the purpose of trying to configure wine to use it as it base instead of its normal setup. Only thing is Ubuntu is the sole controller of my laptop here atm and as you know installing XP will remove grub as boot controller. And while I know about SuperGrub I was wondering how, if possible,do I re-install grub from Karmic's LiveCD?
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Jan 25, 2011
I installed Windows after installing Ubuntu. But Ubuntu is still intact in its partition.
I'm trying to run the Ubuntu LiveCD to recover grub, but the LiveCD no longer works. It stops the boot process and does not load completely.
I can not run Ubuntu in live mode to recover grub.
Is there any way to recover the grub/grub2 without the LiveCD?
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Aug 12, 2011
I have a system without a cd reader so i dd'd the livecd iso (I'm stuck with 7.10) to a partition. I can boot the system with grub4dos by loading the kernel and ramdisk. Is there a kernel parameter I can append so I can change the keymap like I was able to by pressing F3 in the cd boot menu?
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Oct 7, 2010
The computer I'm using is a Dell Vostro 1000. If you need any specific stats, let me know and I'll post them, but I don't have access to anything that will list them.
As of this afternoon, Grub will not longer boot. I don't know what prompted it; the only change I made was to the power management settings and installing IcedTea. It brings me to "BusyBox" after saying "No init found. Try passing init= bootarg." Then it brings me to some command prompt that doesn't respond to most bash commands I know, and it says "(initramfs)."
I had that problem two or three weeks ago after Fedora broke Grub, but I fixed it by using "grub-install" in an Ubuntu LiveCD. (No easy task to find what command I needed to use, though.)
But, now the LiveCD won't load. It hangs on the splash screen that just says "Ubuntu" with the dots underneath that indicate it's loading. This exact same disk (and I've reburned it, of course) worked fine when I had to clean up the mess that Fedora made. I tried switching to a terminal at the point where it hangs and there are no messages at all.
I already tried using acpi = off and burning the disk at the slowest speed (from two different computers).
I tried with the Mepis LiveCD, but the GUI just shows a blank screen. I can run commands using Alt+F2, and the cursor is visible, but that's it. I can switch to a terminal, but I can barely use grub-install at all as it is, and I can't figure out how to mount a drive through the command line.
An older version of a Sabayon Linux LiveCD works fine, but, unfortunately, doesn't do anything useful. I haven't tried Knoppix because it never worked on this computer.
If there are any other distros that I can use to run grub-install (preferably lightweight; I'm getting impatient downloading so many 700 mb iso files), I'm open to suggestion. Those are just the ones that I'm familiar with already.
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Apr 8, 2010
liveCD hangs on the ubuntu splash screen. this is the second time grub has hosed this system (last time was 9.10 upgrade).
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Nov 9, 2010
I recently had to reinstall windows on another partition on my hard drive due to there not being any good way to run unrealed under ubuntu (believe me, I've tried everything) Is there a way to install grub from windows without using a liveCD or booting to a USB? I have downloaded WINGRUB and to be fair I have no clue how to use it.I no longer can access my Ubuntu partition.
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Sep 18, 2009
I had Win XP on my T61. I installed Fedora 11 from Gnome LiveCD. Now I cant even see GRUB. The laptop boots directly into Win XP. I had the partitions like this:
/dev/sda1 - Win XP - NTFS - 75 GB
/dev/sda2 - Win Recovery - NTFS - 5 GB
/dev/sda3 - /boot - ext3 - 1 GB
/dev/sda4 - Logical extended partition
/dev/sda5 - / - ext4 - 10 GB
/dev/sda6 - swap - 3 GB
Installed GRUB on the MBR (/dev/sda, and not on any partition). Once I completed installing Fedora 11 from the LiveCD and rebooted, the laptop directly boots into Win XP. No sign of Fedora there. How do I get to install GRUB now?
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Jan 29, 2010
Does anyone know if Apparmor will work on the Ubuntu 10.04 livecd? I know there are currently issues running Apparmor on stacked filesystems with aufs. Currently a casper scripts disables Apparmor during boot up. Would be very useful if it could be run in a live session.
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Mar 21, 2010
I've been trying to get my LiveCD (9.10) to boot but I can't get it to work. I get it to the main screen then I select "Try Ubuntu without making changes to my system" and I get a whole bunch of information to pop up... looks like techno giberish to me. Then I get what essentially looks like a prompt, except no matter what I type I get nothing out of it. I just want to be able to use my liveCD without issue.
P.S. I'm using a Toshiba Satellite Laptop that has windows 7 installed.
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Nov 22, 2010
I've been trying to fix the problem since the past 6 hours and no clue what's going wrong.The system was working fine until I switched it off and on. First I get the initramfs error. I clicked on 'e' when shown the box to choose Ubuntu Generic/Recovery/Memory Test options.
recordfail
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
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Jun 20, 2010
I've decided to try openSUSE again, but I'm having trouble with the LiveCD. I've tried both "linux" and "root" which has been mentioned in many places but neither works.
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Dec 27, 2010
I've happily finished a SWE course that required VS2010, and thus a new computer to run the hog. Now that the course is done, I'm installing Ubuntu. As the post title implies, the live CD works well and the install goes fine. I'm able to boot up in Ubuntu and do an update. After that, though, Ubuntu freezes on boot. It gets as far as the moving dots but freezes right after that.
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Nov 6, 2009
I wonder why fedora livecd images cannot be booted by grub2 loopback method, which works with ubuntu and debian.i have tried something like this:
menuentry "fedora 11 i386" {
loopback loop /boot/iso/Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso
linux (loop)/isolinux/vmlinuz0 root=CDLABEL=Fedora-11-i686-LiveCD rootfstype=auto ro
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Oct 13, 2010
I've just installed Fedora (F13) for the first time, on a new HDD, to give myself a dual-boot system. So currently I have:
So, at the appropriate stage in the install menu, there is an option for where to install GRUB, and a drop-down to choose which drive is the primary BIOS boot drive.
However, in both cases, no other drive except my new sdc is visible. So, I can install GRUB to MBR of sdc, or to first sector of boot partition - but no option to put it to my primary boot drive MBR on sda.
Likewise, in the GRUB configuration page, if I go to Add another OS, the only option it gives me is my new Fedora install. It doesn't list the Vista OS on sda at all.
The result is that I can boot to either OS by changing the boot drive priority in BIOS.
I guess my question is this:
- is this expected behaviour from the installer, meaning that I'll need to configure GRUB manually somehow? (gulp ) or
- did I do something wrong in the install process? or
- is this some weird bug manifesting itself?
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Mar 4, 2011
I have 2 hard disks. sda,sdb
In sda, I have 4 partitions, and I have windows 7 in one of the extended partitions [not in the primary partition].
In sdb, I have 3 partitions. 2 for storage, and 1 10GB drive for Ubuntu. Again, Ubuntu is not of a primary partition.
I had ubuntu 10.04 running on that for a long time. However, I wanted to reinstall ubuntu and use 10.10.This is what I did EXACTLY:Booted from Ubuntu install CD
Chose advanced istall
Selected sdb3 for Ubuntu
I installed GRUB2 on the SAME partition as Ubuntu aka sdb3 Installed then rebooted
I can boot into Ubuntu fine, but whenever I select Windows 7 bootloader from the GRUB menu, the screen goes black, and my PC reboots.
Boot Info:
Code:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010 [code]....
ls: reading directory sda6/: Input/output error
I have tried the testdisk/update-grub method, but it didn't work.
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Jun 4, 2011
So I have 2 ide hdds but whenever they are both connected, grub gets stuck at GRUB loading stage 1.5. how can I resolve this problem?
both are Maxtors with ext4 fs. primary is 20 gb and secondary 80 gb.
Jumpers are set to cable select.
Boot order in bios is correct. (primary first, secondary isn't in the list at all)
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May 26, 2011
I'm trying to install (L)ubuntu on an old AMD 1.66GHz based HP laptop, to dual boot with Windows XP. However I'm running into an issue that I haven't come across on any other machine before where after selecting "Install Lubuntu" from the main boot menu, it moves to the scrolling dots splash/loading screen and after ~30 sec or a minute it freezes. There is no error, it doesn't reboot or eject the disk even after several hours of sitting on that splash screen, with the dots frozen, no CD activity, and no HDD activity. I get the same result if I try to boot it as a LiveCD as well.
Can someone help diagnose whats going on? Is it possible changing some boot options will allow it to install? I'm not quite sure where to go with this one.
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Jun 23, 2010
Ubuntu 10.04 was in small slave-disk, and I put other bigger disk same type IDE/ATA.In first start I get message: "no such device....., grub rescue."Anyway, I make installation in this disk and and now after start message is: "error: out of disk, grub rescue.So now I can not use master/XP and no slave/Ubuntu.
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Jan 4, 2011
Ubuntu 10.10 doesn't boot at all. The liveCD only boots once every like 30 attempts, installing from liveCD froze, but the Alternate CD worked and installed ubuntu. Now when I try to boot into it using GRUB, it freezes at the beginning of the boot process.With normal boot it freezes at line: Starting AppArmor profiles Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.bin.firefox.With recovery mode it freezes even before showing me anything
A little kinda like the liveCD, if I try like 30 times, it might manage to boot once in normal mode.That line keeps on repeating, the the xxx.xxx integer changes each time, and this goes on forever.I tried removing my floppy drive, but it didn't help.I tried to boot with fd0=noprobeThe one time it booted, when I restarted, it froze while trying to restart.
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Jun 13, 2010
I have 9.10 running with a dual boot with Windows 7 using EasyBCD, I want to upgrade to 10.04 doing a clean install. Problem is, I don't think it will work out using EasyBCD, others are saying in my other thread asking if it works, that I should just let GRUB be my boot manager. Well the problem is, although I have never had one problem with GRUB or GRUB2 in my life, that was on an old Dell Machine running XP, now I have my new laptop and it runs Windows 7, should I continue to use EasyBCD or try GRUB, I don't have one of those Windows 7 Repair CDs, and my recovery is on a partition (factory restore), I get into it by holding "0" when I turn on the computer, if I use GRUB, will I lose that functionality? GRUB2 seems like it would work (When I chose Windows 7 after clicking Ubuntu from the Windows Boot Loader, it starts Windows 7). I am just dead scared and already have the shivers thinking of it.
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Mar 10, 2011
I just downloaded the recent updates and system asked to reboot and went to grub> i do know know what to do.
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Apr 7, 2011
After much googling and trial-and-error, I have finally decided to ask about this problem. I have an hp tm2t-1100, a computer that supports efi/uefi booting. However, when I install grub-efi, it installs itself to my hard drive (even though I'm using GPT!) and sets itself up to boot BIOS-mode and then EMULATE EFI. How can I get grub to install to an EFI system partition? I know I need a FAT32 partition named HP_TOOLS and a /boot/efi/ directory on it. I already have those things, but I cannot figure out for the life of me how to get grub-efi to install for a real actual efi-boot instead of what it is doing now (installing like normal grub and emulating efi).
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Sep 30, 2010
I have always been a Redhat user, and ESXi User. I decided to try ubuntu because of it's strong recommendations as a file server. I have tried several fixes listed in the forums with no luck. I tried the live CD and I have no issues there. I tried gparted, and it sees all my drives. Seeing that most ask for the boot info script to be run, i was proactive. I know its a boot issue with were grub is pointing too. However, that is where I get stuck. I am not an expert at using grub. In a Nut shell, I had no issues installing. I choose the Jmicron 150G Raid 1 drive. Used full drive space with LVM. When it came to reboot I did, and it just sits after it does the boot from cdrom. I hate to go back to windows 7 for a file server/web server. Oh Windows was installed at one point, I think that is where the script sees the GPT partitions.
Machine details:
AMD 1055T
8G Gskill
4850 ATI card
Intel Pro 10/100/1000 PT
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Jan 2, 2011
After windows 7 failed to install and decided to take my partitions with it I managed to restore them from liveCD.I now can't get grub to work properly. I finally got it to find boot into one of the my two OS', but then borked grub it again when trying to update-grub2.Output from bootinfoscript attached.
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Mar 5, 2011
Today when working with Windows 7 Disk Management, I carelessly mark the partition on which Win 7 is installed as ACTIVE and the chain of problems began. When I restarted my laptop, something like this appeared:
Code:
No such partition.
Grub rescue>_
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Jun 2, 2011
after I updated my BIOS , my keyboard didnt work in grub , but I can use it before grub.
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May 17, 2010
I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to dual boot with Win Xp and everything went fine with the installation untill I went to boot back into Windows. My keyboard fails to respond in the boot loader so I am stuck with the default setting of booting back into Linux. To be clear, the keyboard works when the BIOS loads, I can hit DEL and go to the BIOS menu, etc, it's only when I hit the boot loader. The keyboard also works fine in Linux and Windows.
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Jun 21, 2010
i have a dual boot. i loaded 9.1 on one disk and windows xp is on another. grub worked fine. i downloaded 10.4 and i must have selected the wrong option cause when i restarted it dropped me into a shell. i reloaded 9.1 and wiped out 10.4. again i must have selected the wrong option cause i get the grub menu with an option for windows but nothing happens. 9.1 comes up alright and i can select windows office files from ubuntu.
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