Grub is messed up after I upgraded to 10.4

[kokkus]

Beans: 563 : i'm sure ( i hope) you have not made the common newbie fault of installing grub over the windows bootloader, dont you ?

if you had previously grub ( = grub1=grub-legacy) installed , you first need to remove/purge with synaptic ALL the grub packages installed, then install grub-pc and grub-common (menu.list need to be removed), then:

sudo grub-mkconfig && update-grub

You mean I must remove everything i can find with the word grub? That sounds dangerous.

[dino99]

You mean I must remove everything i can find with the word grub? That sounds dangerous.

we are not April 1th
of course dont reboot !!!! before installing the 2 needed packages

[GSF1200S]

You mean I must remove everything i can find with the word grub? That sounds dangerous.

No, its not dangerous. You can just do:

sudo apt-get purge grub

then do:

sudo apt-get install grub-pc grub-common

and then:

sudo update-grub2

and take a look at the output. It should mention Windows. After done and before you restart, will you please post the contents of RESULTS.TXT? That would help us.

[kokkus]

ok I did but ubuntu can still not mount the win7 partition and now I don't even have the win7 os in the grub list.
Is it really possible that I can have deleted the win7 partition when I used testdisk to repair grub?
OMG all this frustration just because Ubuntu didn't install grub correctly.
So what can I do now?

[dino99]

what is dangerous is to make things you dont understand

but be happy, Lucid is able to do all you want even run windoz's apps with wine (winehq), no more blue screen of death or flooding by virus, nice dont you ...

now you can erase bill's spyware LOL

[spiky001]

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sudo fdisk -l

[kokkus]

what is dangerous is to make things you dont understand

you are not helping. As I said, I have tried almost everything on this forum to fix this problem, and I have no idea what i am doing when it comes to all that advanced pc geek stuff.
I just want it to work again. It's frustrating how ubuntu must always make things harder then it has to be. IN the installation, why did it ask for the grub thing? I guess 90 procent of us are lost when it comes to stuff like that.
All the older versions of ubuntu installed the grub thing automatically.
ANyway, I just want this thing fixed now.
Please help.

[kokkus]

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sudo fdisk -l

Ok thanks, here's the output.

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x27fc082a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1914 18279 131458852 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 31355 60802 236533760 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 18280 31354 105024937+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 18280 30817 100711453+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 30818 31354 4313421 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

[singercs]

I had the same issue and I was using xp, I finally had to bit the bullet and try to reinstall but it wouldn't take so I tried a vista disc and that installed but wouldn't boot, I then installed win7 that booted once then nothing, I used a 9.04 disc to reinstall something that I could use and that took three tries to install past 68%, after it finally installed everything seemed great until I had to shut down my machine, it didn't want to shut down so I got sick and tired of this crap and wiped the HDD and started from a fresh disc, I did loose all my files etc however I now have a great working 10.4.

I did the upgrade on my daughters 600mh dell and that went without a hitch and works great with 256m ram.

[spiky001]

I think you have to get win running 1st then redo grub