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Old 11-12-2009, 08:53 AM   #1
tarun28jain
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Unhappy grub command prompt problem


i have 2 windows linux fedora and windows xp.when i booted comp one day then instead of asking which os to start a command prompt appears with GRUB written on it.Now how should i fix this problem to get gui interface back without any loss of data.
 
Old 11-12-2009, 01:13 PM   #2
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Google or search this forum for fix grub.
 
Old 11-12-2009, 01:55 PM   #3
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Boot up from any Linux Live CD, open a terminal and do this:

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fdisk -l   ##this tells us what all your drives and partitions are.  find the one containing the Linux OS**---let's assume it is sda2.
mkdir /mnt/linux
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/linux
cd /mnt/linux/boot/grub
sed '/^#/d' menu.lst    ##Post the output of this here
**specifically, we need the partition containing /boot. If there is only one linux partition, then that's it. Otherwise, when you mount the partition, look to see if /boot is there. If not, try a different one. (If there are 2 Linux partitions, /boot is almost certainly on the smaller one.)
 
  


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