grub problem

[themis]

Hello,

I had xp, added win7, and now added kubuntu.

But can't choose the OS to load on grub.

Can't find a fix through the posted threads, can you guide me to solving the problem?

Thanks in advance,
themis

[drs305]

Are you using Grub 2? (Check with "grub-install -v" in a terminal).

Do you see any menu when you boot?

If you don't see a menu, try holding down the SHIFT key during boot to reveal the menu.

Which OS is currently booting?

[themis]

grub-install (GNU GRUB 1.97~beta4)

yes i do see the boot menu!

[drs305]

Can you give us more information on your problem?

If you see the menu, do you mean that if you select one of the Windows entries they don't work? If so, here is a link that helps restore Windows after installing Ubuntu (and variants).
How to restore the Ubuntu/XP/Vista/7 bootloader

If that is not the problem or the link doesn't work, please post the results of this script by meierfra. Place the contents within "code" tags by clicking the # symbol.
http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/

[themis]

I see the menu but the keyboard doesnt work(the arrows and 'Enter').

I ll have a look to the tutorial,
thanks for showing it to me.

If I still have a problem, I'll post again.

Thank you

[kansasnoob]

I see the menu but the keyboard doesnt work(the arrows and 'Enter').

Is it a USB keyboard?

If so it's possible you may need to enable USB Legacy Support in the BIOS:

http://support.creative.com/kb/ShowA....aspx?sid=5754

[ajgreeny]

If your system will boot into kubuntu, just open a terminal (Konsole in kde if I remember correctly) and type the command sudo update-grub. That may fix the problem, but it sounds as if there is some problem with the BIOS not recognising your keyboard. Is it a usb keyboard?

Have a quick look in the BIOS screens at boot time by pressing the key that will be shown on screen "Press Del to enter setup" or similar, and see if there is somewhere to "enable legacy usb devices" or a similar option. It may help the keyboard to work, though is seldom needed these days.

[themis]

It is a usb keyboard.

The weird is that the arrows sometimes(a few though) do work!
How can they be selective on when they will work????

AT BIOS:USB controllers, USB Legacy Function and USB Storage Function were
and still are enabled.
Ubuntu is currently booting.

How to restore the Ubuntu/XP/Vista/7 bootloader asks for a sudo fdisk -l
and I get

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x27f427f3

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       12748   102398278+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           12749      121601   874361722+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5           12749       25496   102398278+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6           25497       50992   204796588+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7           50993       76488   204796588+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8          120606      121601     8000338+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9          107858      120605   102398278+  83  Linux
/dev/sda10          76489      107857   251971461   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

How can I tell which is my Ubuntu drive to continue with the tutorial?

[ajgreeny]

Why so many linux partitions in what appears to be a bit of a mess with sda2 containing everything else except the sda1 boot partition for windows? Have you installed more than one time without overwriting partitions the second time?
You can find which are your ubuntu by in Ubuntu running

mount

in terminal and at the top you will see a line like

/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)

meaning sda1 is mounted as / (root) and is ext4. Depending on your setup you may also get a line like

/dev/sda2 on /home type ext4 (rw)

which is my /home partition. There are a lot of other lines you can largely ignore as most are just virtual system mounted devices. Those two lines will be the important ones for your Ubuntu install.

[oldfred]

I had the same problem when I put a new motherboard in about a year ago. Keyboard worked in BIOS and windows but not in grub. I had to switch it to the standard mouse & keyboard ports and then switch back. Once I updated the BIOS everything worked.

If you run the boot-info_script that drs305 suggested, we can tell a lot about your system. Otherwise we are guessing.