Questions Tagged With grub

Grub lost after windows 8

mhtsaras_aek — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:49:37 -0400

Hi there , i used to have installed on my pc backtrack 5 R2 + ubuntu 11.10 when i installed windows 8 i lost grub

using ext2explore and other browsing tools , i can see all linux partitions , with files in there. using super grub disk , i am trying to reinstall grub , but it says , file not found Ass seen here Any ideas ?

DUAL BOOT problem - UBUNTU-7.04 WITH WIN XP RPO

azeemest — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 03:03:34 -0400

Dear All,

I have already install win XP then I have install UBUNTU 7.04 in free space but next time WIN XP not in bootable option, and system directly enter into ubuntu

then vise vesa....

First I install Ubuntu7.04 in free space then I install WIN XP in partitiion C: but now system directly enter into XP without giving dual option. but ubuntu partition is still show in device manager. image is attached (problem in atached uploading require Karma >60 ???????)

regards. azeem

Ubuntu grub rescue prompt!! [closed]

Cyril Sebastian — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:16:34 -0400

Installed WUBI on windows and ubuntu installation completed, at first Ubuntu login it updated full patches and asked for REBOOT.

Now after reboot it is showing me the error:

no such devices found

grub rescue>

Can you share some commands, so that I could recover at least Windows. It is not even asking for the Windows login at the boot time.

Thnx.

Startup slow after installing linux and a dual boot

Arun Srini — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:45:55 -0400

Had installed Windows 7 initially, then with lucid lynx dvd, I installed with default parameters and with dual boot. Usually it took around 12-16 secs to bring up my login screen in windows, but after this install it takes me around 30 seconds to even bring the dual boot choice screen, which also has Linux as the default (1st option that gets selected on inactivity of 10 secs). Here is what I have set out to do.

bring up the list of OS to boot as soon as possible on a boot
make windows as the initial choice(default) in the boot menu.

Please help.

How to fix grub after moving root partition?

Grzenio — Sat, 15 May 2010 22:05:46 -0400

Hi,

Because I am using one of the new WD disks I am trying to aling my root partition with the real sectors, as described here:

http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/Problem-with-WD-Advanced-Format-drive-in-LINUX-WD15EARS/m-p/10920#M631

So I copied all files to a temp location, deleted my partition (/dev/sda3), recreated it a few cylinders later (same name) and copied the files to the newly created partition. But now when I try to boot, I get my old grub menu but after selecting my kernel version it hangs... Any idea how I can fix it?

grub uninstall from VISTA

rpalmer — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:25:26 -0400

How do you uninstall Grub from a dual system with Vista and Mepis linux (Toshiba Satellite)?

Access GRUB boot menu in Fedora?

Emmanuel — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:34:32 -0400

I installed Fedora on a VM to test out something. Only, I managed to screw up and I forgot the root password, so I want to boot into single user mode to reset the root password. I can't seem to get to GRUB though. I heard that Fedora will hide the menu if you don't have a multi-boot setup or something

Is there a key I need to hold or something?