ubuntu 10.10 not booting up.

[sukesh1090]

here is the screen shot of the screen during boot(sorry for th low quality).holding shift key won't work.
btw where should i find the menu.lst file to add windows 7 entry in to it for dual boot.

 

[krishnandu.sarkar]

No no wait, grub2 doesn't have menu.lst, it's depriciated.

From what you have posted avobe for fdisk -l screenshot it looks like /boot doesn't have bootable flag, that could also be a problem.

So boot from Live CD. Go to Terminal. Run

sudo fdisk /dev/sda

and it'll ask for command, press "a" and it'll ask for partition number, so provide the partition number for /boot (which in your case I guess is /dev/sda9 so press 9), and then press "w", and reboot and post the result.

I wish this solves your problem.

Once you get your ubuntu back just boot into it and run sudo update-grub2 and it'll automatically add windows to the list.

 

[Faun]

/boot/grub/menu.lst

Btw your grub versions is 1.98 ?

 

[sukesh1090]

don't know it shows like that and in software center also it shows like that only.

 

[sukesh1090]

i tried what you told but when i restart i will get the same screen as before.here is the screenshot what i entered in terminal,

 

[krishnandu.sarkar]

Well, I've no idea now...

You can try this Boot Problems Open Source Tools | Super Grub Disk, Super Grub2 Disk and Rescatux

Once I used it to fix mine.

Give it a try.

 

[sukesh1090]

can you tell me how to use grub disk usb image to fix my windows mbr

 

[krishnandu.sarkar]

No idea about USB Image, I downloaded CD Image, it restored Ubuntu. And after booting into ubuntu I ran sudo update-grub2 and it updated grub with Windows. So basically I got both.

 

[sukesh1090]

which one you used among the three of them?

 

[doomgiver]

try this :
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/1375666-post2.html

 

[Anish]

try this :
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/1375666-post2.html

^^ thats great post man.. it is well explained..

 

[doomgiver]

thanks