---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] abhishek.amberkar@gmail.com Date: 2010/7/5 Subject: Getting "grub>" prompt after booting in Ubuntu 10.04 To: Kaustubh Kurambhatti kaussie.27@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?