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From: Abhishek Amberkar [अà¤à¤¿à¤·à¥‡à¤•] <abhishek.amberkar(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2010/7/5
Subject: Getting "grub>" prompt after booting in Ubuntu 10.04
To: Kaustubh Kurambhatti <kaussie.27(a)gmail.com>
Hi friends,
I had WinXP and Ubuntu 10.04 installed on my system. I replaced WinXP with
Win7
and lost GRUB (Legacy). Now my system started booting directly into Win7. So
I
tried installing GRUB (Legacy) again with Ubuntu live cd. But this time I
end
up removing NT loader as well and now I just get grub> prompt when I boot my
system. I am able to boot Ubuntu manually from grub> prompt. So I did and
created new menu.lst with all the commands and options I used to do manual
boot
But still no luck, everytime I boot my system I get GRUB prompt.
== My customized menu.lst ==
default 0
timeout 10
color cyan/blue white/blue
title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-22-generic
root (hd0,7)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=/dev/sda10 ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-22-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,7)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=/dev/sda10 ro single
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
title Other operating systems:
root
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
====
== menu.lst generated using update-grub ==
## ## End Default Options ##
title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-22-generic
uuid f6f6c34c-25a3-4542-8247-e592a60cb30b
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic
root=UUID=8fcc0582-aa5b-4e4f-9f0b-05b160473842 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-22-generic (recovery mode)
uuid f6f6c34c-25a3-4542-8247-e592a60cb30b
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic
root=UUID=8fcc0582-aa5b-4e4f-9f0b-05b160473842 ro single
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, memtest86+
uuid f6f6c34c-25a3-4542-8247-e592a60cb30b
kernel /memtest86+.bin
quiet
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
== fdisk -l (after manual boot from GRUB) ==
root@kaustubh-desktop:~# fdisk -l
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: 0x00000080
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 26 287 2104515 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 288 38913 310263345 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 288 6661 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 6662 19409 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 19410 19895 3903763+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 19896 19913 144553+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 19914 29396 76172166 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 29397 38913 76445271 83 Linux
== mount (after manual boot from GRUB)==
root@kaustubh-desktop:~# mount | grep sd
/dev/sda10 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda8 on /boot type ext3 (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda9 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime)
In GRUB prompt I tried
setup(hd0,7)
setup(hd0)
setup(hd0,0)
but I still get grub> prompt. What to do?