Hi,
had to reinstall my win7 on my Lenovo Ideapad s10-3.
Trying to use these two aproaches from the Ubutu 10.4 LiveCD:

when I reboot the machine, I only end up in grub rescue mode.
Have also been trying this:

just get an error, cannot find command


My fdisk -l output looks like this:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 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: 0x45971281

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 125 999424 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 125 250 1000448 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 250 26421 210225786+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 * 26422 30401 31969350 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 8019 MB, 8019509248 bytes
20 heads, 16 sectors/track, 48947 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 320 * 512 = 163840 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0000a3cc

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 48948 7831512 b W95 FAT32

You'll need the root-directory to be on /dev/sda.
Maybe just chroot into the disk install and grub-update.

I don't know about 10.04 but 10.10 will allow you to mount os if you chose the try ubuntu option once in you
can see your files in "examples". Also if your windows os is bootable download and burn gparted-live-cd
You can change your bootflag to sda1 that should get you in.
Did you try:
"os-prober"
"update-grub"

I don't know about 10.04 but 10.10 will allow you to mount os if you chose the try ubuntu option once in you
can see your files in "examples". Also if your windows os is bootable download and burn gparted-live-cd
You can change your bootflag to sda1 that should get you in.
Did you try:
"os-prober"
"update-grub"

I really think all you needed were these two commands

I don't know about 10.04 but 10.10 will allow you to mount os if you chose the try ubuntu option once in you
can see your files in "examples". Also if your windows os is bootable download and burn gparted-live-cd
You can change your bootflag to sda1 that should get you in.
Did you try:
"os-prober"
"update-grub"

try this out - boot into the rescue mode with a fedora cd. Keep going till it drops you to a black shell prompt.
issue following two commands to reinstall grub :-
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/sda
(use the hard disk extn i.e sda / hda , as applicable to you)

hope it helps

See this tutorial for reinstalling grub2 to the master boot record (MBR) from the Ubuntu live CD:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Gr...ing%20GRUB%202
Just use the first method for reinstalling grub2 that is listed there. It should work fine.

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