Ubuntu Installation :: Upgrade From 8.04 To 10.04 Resulted In "no Such Partion" By Grub?
May 12, 2010
I've upgraded my Desktop 8.04LTS to 10.04. I've forgot to follow the instruction to update grub before rebooting the system, so now grub won't boot my ubuntu partition ("no such partition"), only Windows.I've 3 SATA Harddrives:1-80GB with Ubuntu and grub2-80GB with Windows XP and it's own MBR3-250GB with one FAT32 and one NTFS partions, both for bkp purposes.I've booted a 10.04 system with a usb drive and I can't see Windows or Ubuntu through the disk utility! Only the 250GB disk. I can't mount the partitions through terminal too.Now how can I update grub if I can't chroot to my system?
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Oct 26, 2010
I have two hard-drives. The first, C: (sda1) has Windows 7 x64 installed on it. The second hard-drive, D: (sdb1), was partitioned when I installed Ubuntu 10.04 into two separate partitions: NTFS and Ext3.
I wanted to remove the Ext3/Ubuntu partition and reclaim that space (i.e. completely remove Ubuntu). I did NOT install using Wubi. I booted up Win7 x64, went into Disk Management, right-clicked the D: partition corresponding to the Ext3 filesystem (shows up as unrecognized in Disk Management), and opted to delete the volume. I then right-clicked on the NTFS D: partition, and opted to Extend the Volume to reclaim the previously partitioned space.
When I rebooted, I ended up with the following error:
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error: no such device: f81368be-ea53-43d2-b8de-bb52b5ac322c.
grub rescue>
I cannot get beyond this screen. Rebooting always puts me at the grub rescue prompt. I have looked at the HOWTO: Purge and Grub Rescue Prompt threads, but was not able to understand the instructions and am therefore asking for your help. However, I was able to install the boot script as those threads suggest, and here is my results.txt:
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
partition #2 for /boot/grub.
[code]....
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Jan 3, 2011
Ubuntu 10.04 was installed on a friends laptop. An update has resulted in "Error: No such device".
Usually I would have used the live CD to rescue. However the laptop won't boot from CD/DVD andmy friend doesn't know his Bios password as it was already set when he was given it. He has contacted Asus and they won't give him the password (laptop was a present).
The result is that my friend is stuck on grub resuce and we need to find away to boot into linux on the hard drive.
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So, the quick and dirty: I installed Ubuntu 8.04 early last year and stuck with it until some of the bugs had been worked out of 9.10, after which I did a clean installation of it. During installation, I remember being asked about keeping a back-up for my previous 8.04 installation and I selected yes (figuring better safe than sorry). So, despite uninstalling 8.04 within Vista before installing 9.10, I now (oddly) am able to boot into either Vista, Ubuntu 8.04 OR Ubuntu 9.10. Aesthetics aside, I don't much care that 8.04 is still present. Installing 9.10 complicated the bejesus out of my boot process though. It currently boots as such:
First screen options:
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 8.04 (safe)
[code]....
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1) I am upgraded to a later kernel at the same time (currently 2-6-31.1. This singularly fails to work, in that I end up with no working kernel at all and I can only run memtest (or Windows 7, which is about as much use): good for the soul no doubt, but frustrating. "Solution": tar up the whole of /boot beforehand and then reinstate it afterwards. I am back to square 1, but at least a working square 1.
2) I persuade APT not to upgrade the kernel.I then get 14 (and 14 recovery) in my grub.cfg, but boot fails dramatically, and it becomes apparent that it has forgotten about /dev/sda, my hard disk.Further investigation shows that I have a new initrd.img in /boot, which doesn't work properly; reinstate the backup version, and all is well.What is going on? Is it just me? How come there aren't crowds of protesting peasants with pitchforks outside Canonical Towers?
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I have problem with grub loader. When I upgrade my ubuntu I change my grub but after restart grub get error. grup_puts_ .......
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I performed an upgrade via the Update Manager from 9.10 to 10.04 LTS and it seemed to go flawlessly. However, now I cannot seem to be able to remove the old Kernel from 9.10 in the package manager. It does not even show 2.6.32-21 as installed but it still shows the old Kernel in Grub. I did a sudo update-grub but it was to no avail.
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I 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?
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Jun 25, 2010
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Sep 24, 2010
I decided to go ahead and upgrade my 9.10 amd64 to 10.04 ( a little late in the game I know, but I liked Karmic) Well I goofed when prompted to upgrade grub. After reading some other posts about various grub issues, I did the Boot Info Script (results posted below).
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
[code].....
I have a external usb with a Ubuntu OS on it that I was able to boot into and do some digging. When I upgraded I selected the NTFS partition instead of the actual /boot partition and jacked it all up. Im currently downloading the 10.04 liveCD to repair the grub on the /boot after I repair the MBR on the NTFS partition. Hopefully I can attempt to repair my Linux partitions by reinstalling the Grub that is on the 10.04 liveCD WITHOUT formatting my current partitions and still be able to keep all my current configurations.
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Sep 27, 2010
I had installed Ubuntu 10.04 within Windows 7nd everything work perfect until this morning. When I turned my laptop on I was told that Grub could'nt find the storage device and was presented with a grub command line
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Oct 30, 2010
I upgraded to 10.10, and grub just came back with "no wubildr", and then a "no other mode", or something like that. I dual boot xp (I used it to install wubi), and I need a few files off my linux partition. Is there a way to:recover my files within windows
skip grub and go strait to ubuntu
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I started off on 9.10 and upgraded to 10.4 without any problems. However during the upgrade to 10.10 got asked about grub (see attachment 1& 2) and I think I should have ticked the other boxs but I didn't. I also got an error (see3) The 4th one I think is a different issue.On the restart it would only get to the purple screen before the login field appears. I presume I need to do something to the grub but have no idea what.My system is 64bit and a raid 1. The attachment 5 shows the partition arrangement I can boot into the the PC with a live (32bit 10.10) cd.
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Feb 3, 2011
I just upgraded from lucid to 10.10. After the reboot, I can only see recovery mode entries in grub.I tried
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update-grub and update-burg
( i think i had burg installed) both to no avail. I also tried re-installing grub onto my main ssd hd, with the command
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grub-install /dev/sda
nothing there either.
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Mar 13, 2011
some days ago I upgraded my 10.04 Ubuntu to 10.10. Upgrading took quite some time as I had already witnessed in previous upgrades. Everything seems to work fine after this operation but for the Grub. I can no longer set the timer! It means I have to manually push "Enter" to start booting. I also noted that I cannot change the font size of the Grub any longer. I have not seen such behaviour during previous upgrades (I started upgrading with U 9.04).
Toshiba L505-10M with dual boot W7/U 10.10 500 GB HD & 6 GB RAM
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Apr 9, 2011
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away, because I've been using working system with Windows 7 & Ubuntu 10.10, but last night I decided to update to 11.04 from update manager. So, when upgrade was done, I rebooted and saw something like this:
"grub_env_export not found
grub rescue > "
Do I have a problem with MBR? Will it help, if I load from Ubuntu live cd and try to reinstall grub?
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Apr 30, 2011
The day that the upgrade came out (not beta, the true release) I upgraded via the Update Manager. The upgrade went great until it asked me to reset to finalize. Upon doing that, I was greeted with a less than friendly grub-rescue> screen. The materials I currently have at my disposal are a 10.10 installation disc, and an 8.04 installation disc, and a rescatux disc (super grub) that seems to yield an error upon any of the four options presented... how can I use these (both have Live CD) to fix the grub...
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Jul 5, 2011
I have a dual boot Win7/Ubuntu laptop. I have been running it dual since 10.04, Lucid with no problems, and I upgraded to 10.10 also without problems. However, when I upgraded to 11.04 I began to get error messages on boot up.
Importantly - both Win7 and Ubuntu still work fine, so it could be worse, but clearly something is not right in GRUB.
I could solve this by wiping Ubuntu and reinstalling from the Live CD, but that teaches me nothing, so I would like to get to the bottom of the problem.
The following is what I get if I try to update grub:
jez@jez-laptop:~$ sudo update-grub
[sudo] password for jez:
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-25-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Windows Recovery Environment (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda2
error: syntax error.
error: Incorrect command.
error: syntax error.
error: line no: 153
Syntax errors are detected in generated GRUB config file.
Ensure that there are no errors in /etc/default/grub
and /etc/grub.d/* files or please file a bug report with
/boot/grub/grub.cfg.new file attached.
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Mar 21, 2010
I have tried to upgrade to 10.4 LTS it crashed I use dual booting whenever I try to start the computer it goes in to grub rescue > I have used wubi to install the dul booting, now I can not get into my window nor ubuntu. what can I do ?
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Mar 31, 2010
Currently running Ubuntu 9.04 on my Acer Aspire One D150, multi booting Win Xp, Win 7 and Ubuntu.Can I upgrade to Grub 2 and use one of the nice themes ?? Sora ?
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May 1, 2010
I have a single XP install on another partition, but can't boot to it now that I have upgraded to 10.04. Also, when starting Ubuntu, it takes a good 30 seconds to actually start booting ubuntu after I have selected it from the GRUB list (just sits there with a blinking cursor)
Noticed other users have been directed to run the boot info script, so here are the results from that.
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