after reinstalling grub, grub comes in command prompt mode

saikee · 05-23-2010, 07:05 AM

No you can fire up your menu.lst by these commmands in s Grub prompt.

Code:

root (hd0,7)
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst

Grub will boot up menu.lst first. If there is something Grub having difficulty with menu.lst then Grub will boot to a Grub prompt as the last resort.

I call the Grub terminal mode "before" a Linux has been booted as Grub prompt. Once a Linux has fired up and operational the same Grub terminal is then a Grub shell. The two are different as you cant boot an operating system with the latter.

colorpurple21859 · 05-23-2010, 08:13 AM

Have you tried running this after booting into your ubuntu installation

Quote:

sudo grub
root (hd0,7)
setup (hd0)

daudiam · 05-24-2010, 03:54 AM

I finally got the GUI boot menu.

I logged into my Ubuntu 9.04 and typed

Code:

sudo grub-install /dev/sda

and on rebooting the GUI boot-menu reappeared.

Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed.