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12-19-2007, 09:16 PM
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Registered: Sep 2007
Location: Australia
Distribution: Gentoo / Debian / Rasbian / Proxmox
Posts: 519
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GRUB goes to rescue mode new instalation
i just installed Ubuntu 7.10 from a live cd, now when i go to boot it grub drops into rescue mode and won't boot an OS, i can boot my Live CD fine and i can boot ubuntu using a grub boot floppy, i've tried re-installing GRUB and had no change plz help!!!
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12-19-2007, 09:29 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Debian 12
Posts: 8,353
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Originally Posted by Person_1873
i just installed Ubuntu 7.10 from a live cd, now when i go to boot it grub drops into rescue mode and won't boot an OS, i can boot my Live CD fine and i can boot ubuntu using a grub boot floppy, i've tried re-installing GRUB and had no change plz help!!!
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What error number does grub give you before dropping into rescue mode? Check your file /boot/grub/menu.lst to see if the settings are correct.
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12-19-2007, 09:32 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2006
Location: Belgium
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.04, Debian testing
Posts: 5,019
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Something like that happened to me too. It turned out that the installer had failed to create an initrd... Or rather, there was an initrd but it had a .bak extension, which had to be removed first.
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12-20-2007, 09:10 AM
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Registered: Sep 2007
Location: Australia
Distribution: Gentoo / Debian / Rasbian / Proxmox
Posts: 519
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it was giving me error 18 b4 i reloaded grub then it stared going into rescue mode with no error number, the problem was fixed by re-installing ubuntu anyway.
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12-20-2007, 09:17 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2007
Location: Flint, Mi.
Distribution: Debian Lenny, Solaris 10
Posts: 9
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Sometimes, software and OSs are fixed with a reinstall. Crazy, huh?
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12-26-2007, 04:31 AM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2007
Location: Australia
Distribution: Gentoo / Debian / Rasbian / Proxmox
Posts: 519
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nah it was me messin around with the basic install, my stupidity
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