kathrync's case helped me to improve Boot-Repair.
Boot-Repair should now handle several EFI partitions, and add "Windows UEFI loader" as well as "Windows UEFI recovery" entries when available.
kathrync's case helped me to improve Boot-Repair.
Boot-Repair should now handle several EFI partitions, and add "Windows UEFI loader" as well as "Windows UEFI recovery" entries when available.
Hello! I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 with Windows 7 32 -bit ( I think) that won't boot to Windows, but will boot to Ubuntu.
I booted with Boot-Repair and get this message:
[ 0.323730] Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive
[1.167511] Kernel panic - not syncing; VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(254,4).
The cursor sits there blinking.
I don't know what that message means.
Any help appreciated in getting this to work!
Thanks!
Leaning
P.S. Forgot to add that that was Boot-Repair using the 32-bit non failsafe option. Trying the failsafe option now.
P.P.S: failsafe option is sitting there with "debian login: ". I hit Enter and it says "Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 debian tty1". Alot of stuff I have no idea how to work with. !!!!!
Last edited by leaning; October 30th, 2012 at 01:32 PM. Reason: add some stuff
Welcome to the forums.
If the initial load files are corrupted, I would suspect a bad download. I might try again and verify MD5SUM download. Also burn CD as slowest speed possible or use USB flash drive if system will boot from USB flash drive.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...n/FromUSBStick
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
UEFI boot install & repair info - Regularly Updated :
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2147295
Please use Thread Tools above first post to change to [Solved] when/if answered completely.
In addition to Oldfred suggestions, I would recommend you download an Ubuntu-Secure ISO instead of the Boot-Repair-Disk ISO.
Reason: Boot-Repair-Disk is based on Debian-Stable which contains quite old drivers and may not work on recent computers.
I appreciate your help!
1. I am downloading the Ubuntu Secure Remix ISO.
2. I had a USB thumb drive plugged in when I first booted. I guess when Boot-Repair did its startup thing, it saw the thumb drive. When I removed it and rebooted, Boot-Repair started like it should without those errors I mentioned in my first post.
3. After it started up and scanned, I clicked for it to do recommended repairs.
4. It keeps asking me to connect to the internet, but I don't think the wireless is running yet when you first boot up. (?)
5. It said it did its repairs. It created a log but when I plugged in the thumb drive to save it to it, it couldn't see the thumb drive as a directory. So I closed it.
6. Since it says everything was fixed, I rebooted. It went to an all black screen, paused for a few minutes, then restarted itself to a black screen. It keeps doing that.
HTH
Leaning
My Ubuntu-only setup behaved brilliantly for years until the last update of Oneiric Ocelot when it failed to reboot... have since tried a number of "this-will-works" including but not limited to Boot Repair. However Boot Repair does have the advantage of producing a log (http://paste.ubuntu.com/1320010/ ) though not a repair... telling me... "Please close all your package managers (Software Center, Update Manager, Synaptic, ...). Then try again"
As I am running from a live Oneiric Ocelot CD that seems a bit difficult. I read http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1925332 hoping for some tips but as I'm neither dual boot or past support figured I'd try here.
Reading through the log I found the error message "can't have a partition outside the disk" (which is pretty obvious but might be the legacy of following the advice in http://debian-hacks.blogspot.com.au/...scue-grub.html when using fsck)
Any obvious approaches to repairing the boot?
BTW.. if the machine is started w/o the Live CD it will open "GNU Grub (1.99-12ubuntu5)" and if "Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-31-generic" is selected will head to the Black Screen (is this Ubuntu's BSD?) and display "target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init", "No init found. try passing init=bootarg" .... before "initramfs)_" ... While I agree THAT message 'looks' helpful... it is the "repair the PC boot in 1 click" that really appeals!
Cheers
Thanks for the pointers... it took me a while but
1. there certainly is a problem with /etc/apt/sources.list... it exists in name only (size = 0)... root@ubuntu:~# dir /mnt/etc/
dir: cannot access /mnt/etc/: Not a directory
2. Managed to delete menu.lst okay
I'm guessing a reinstall...
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