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Unable to boot Ubuntu
Markems0:
I am at the moment unable to boot my laptop in ubuntu. windows works fine. The problem started when I updated Ubuntu and agot to the reboot bit. I was not quick enough to make it boot Ubuntu and it started windows which went into errer checking. once it finished Linux will not boot.
I have tryed using Grub boot loader from a cd but it cannot find any grub config files and can only find windows OS. Is my only option to uninstall linux and reinstall?
Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec):
First step would be to boot to a LiveCD or LiveUSB, and see if it can read the Linux partitions of your hard drive .. if not, try (from the LiveCD) try running fsck on your Linux partition(s).
BkS:
Sounds like Windows bootloader has overwritten the files for GRUB in the MBR. You'll need to reinstall GRUB 2.
Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec):
It was my interpretation that GRUB was still present, but not booting Linux .. though I could be wrong.
@Markems0
Do you still see the GRUB boot menu ? .. how about when you hold the "Shift" key whilst booting ?
Which version of Windows, and Ubuntu are we talking about ?
If you boot to a liveCD, what is the output from:
--- Code: ---
sudo fdisk -l
--- End code ---
and
--- Code: ---
sudo blkid
--- End code ---
And what are the contents of the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file (the one on the hard drive, not the one on the LiveCD).
Markems0:
I still have the option to boot Ubuntu when I turn on the laptop. But I just end up with a comand line grub>. The windows is XP sp3, Ubuntu 11.04 or 11.10 not sure. I am downloading Ubuntu to make a live cd.
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