I have upgraded TO Ubuntu 11.04 with a dual boot but now find that I cannot boot my PC at all. I am wondering if it is because I allowed the PC to reboot with the Ubuntu 10.10 CD in the drive.
The text on screen is sh grub:>Does this mean that Griub is present and waiting for a command? if so, what? Or is there a more serious error going on?
I've just installed Ubuntu 10.04.
I'd like to boot using Windows 7 boot manager (I don't dare to put grub in the MBR).
I've used EasyBCD to add a new entry for Ubuntu.
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Then I added Grub to /dev/sda3
And I get this:
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The problem is that it always shows (hd0,0) instead of (hd0,2). I must change it every time I boot. I've tried to install grub again but I always get the same.
And another problem. After that Grub menu it deesn't load Linux but it loads a second grub menu [url] that loads Linux properly.
I guess I've installed two Grubs.
How can I remove the first Grub menu (Grub4dos) and make Windows 7 load the second (the good one)? or how can I remove the second one and change (hd0,0) to (hd0,2) in the second?
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I ran the boot info script and her it is:
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I have a Lenovo ideapad s10e with 4 HDs to it. I have windows xp as first OS, ubuntu 10.04 as other. Here's the situation: I installed Ubuntu 10.04 using Wubi. I can dual-boot, no problem at all. After I logged in to Ubuntu, I downloaded a set of updates. The next day, there's a prompt for an ubuntu update (10.10?). So I installed the update for an hour or so,then a menu for this "grub" appeared. So I just clicked it.
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Eroor No Such Device (some sort of numbers)
Grub Rescue>
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steve@Stewie:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb788b788 .....
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steve@Stewie:~$ sudo update-grub
Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-27-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-27-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-26-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-26-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
done
I have also tried adding the proper code to the 40 custom file, and while I could at least get it to acknowledge my changes, I couldn't seem to find the magic code to get it right....
The other thing I tried was adding GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
to /etc/default/grub
and last but not least, here is my results.txt from the boot info script. I also tried uninstalling/reinstalling grub 2, perhaps I created issues there?
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
Boot Info Summary:
=> No known boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
Was wondering how to do this. I was trying to do achieve this from looking at different guides, but I haven't had any luck.
I am on a custom PC, with dual screens; one LCD, and one CRT, from which I installed OS X 10.5.6 from a retail DVD.
I installed OS X first, because I needed to format my HDD to use GUID partition table, because you can't install from a retail DVD without using GUID. Once OS X was installed, I partitioned my hard-drive into 4 partitions from the OS X disk utility. These partitions were HFS. I then used the Ubuntu Lucid x64 Live disk to format the 3 nre HFS partitions to use ext4, for two of them, and one swap. I installed Ubuntu as normal.
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I thought my OS X instillation was badly damages, so with Ubuntu still installed on the other partitions, I re-installed OS X, which I am on now.
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