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Old 12-07-2010, 05:13 AM   #1
harris4got
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Recurring Grub rescue mode after update-grub


Hello All,

I have an Ubuntu 10.4 installation (dualboot with windows XP) with grub2.

After I resized some of my partitions using a gparted live cd, the system goes directly to grub rescue mode every time I boot.

Then I follow the instructions which are given in grub2 wiki site to boot.

The grub boot directory is now located in sda6 (hd0,6) in my system as found out using 'ls' command.

But in the grub rescue mode when I enter the 'set' command (one of the very few commands available), to display current prefix and root, it gives "(hd0,7)/boot/grub" as 'prefix' and "hd0,7" as 'root'.

After entering the following commands, I'm able to boot

Code:
set prefix=(hd0,6)/boot/grub
set root=(hd0,6)
insmod linux
insmod normal
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 ro
initrd /initrd.img 
boot
Boot is successful and I can log in to my system and GUI and all

Then I update grub using update-grub command. Then I check the grub.cfg file to make sure the entries are right.

And the /boot/grub/grub.cfg has hd0,6 in every entry like

Code:
...insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,6)'
search --no-floppy ..
hd0,7 doesn't appear anywhere.

Then again at the next boot, again there is only a grub rescue prompt and prefix & root has (hd0,7).

There are other users at my home not familiar with ubuntu. windows is their OS of choice. So I don't want to remove windows installation.

I'm grateful to anyone who can shed some light on this or may know whats wrong here.

Last edited by harris4got; 12-07-2010 at 05:24 AM. Reason: More info
 
Old 12-07-2010, 09:27 PM   #2
EDDY1
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Are you able to boot windows?
Since you can get in with your method, once in do:
sudo os-prober
that will find windows if you can't boot it.
then do
sudo update-grub

Last edited by EDDY1; 12-07-2010 at 09:30 PM.
 
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Old 12-07-2010, 11:14 PM   #3
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Thank you for the reply

Thank you for the reply

I tried os-prober

root@jai-desktop:~# os-prober
/dev/sda1:Microsoft Windows XP Professional:Windows:chain

Then I updated grub

root@jai-desktop:~# update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-26-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-26-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Microsoft Windows XP Professional on /dev/sda1
done

But still it boots to grub rescue mode
 
Old 12-07-2010, 11:59 PM   #4
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Solved!!

Problem solved..

All that was required was reinstalling grub

I did 'install-grub'

and everythings fine now

I would again like to thank Eddy1 for replying.
 
Old 12-08-2010, 12:12 AM   #5
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Congrats and thank you, even though it was you who figured it out.
 
Old 04-23-2012, 02:27 AM   #6
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same grub rescue problem, help me to solve it

same grub rescue problem, help me to solve it
 
Old 04-23-2012, 09:30 AM   #7
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spin12armd

Start a new thread. This one is marked Solved and not many will be looking at it. Post some details, what operating system(s), new installation? working previously? partition and drive information?
 
  


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