Grub rescue on boot up?

[boy18nj]

Did you run the first commands to create a mount point and mount it?

Then run the chroot all one line:

yes, i did ran those all commands.

[boy18nj]

I'm getting sick of this. done everything.

[ahallubuntu]

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[boy18nj]

there is a link that explains how to fix this- http://brucencnp.blogspot.com/2010/1...inbash-no.html

but i don't get the required libraries.

[ahallubuntu]

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[boy18nj]

Oh, now I understand: you need to mount the partition - say in /mnt/temp - then find the fstab there:

more /mnt/temp/etc/fstab

and not the one from the live CD.

this seems to be correct, as you have expected.

root@ubuntu:/lib64# more /mnt/temp/etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=7e759d52-ef42-4aa2-8b36-74c5584f482f / ext4 errors=remount
-ro 0 1
root@ubuntu:/lib64#

[boy18nj]

Can you give the output of:

ls /mnt/temp

?

root@ubuntu:~# ls /mnt/temp
bin home media srv vmlinuz
boot initrd.img proc sys vmlinuz.old
C:\nppdf32Log\debuglog.txt initrd.img.old run tmp
dev lib sbin usr
etc lost+found selinux var
root@ubuntu:~#

[boy18nj]

i never imagined, i would be stuck.

should i now go ahead with fresh ubuntu installation?

[ahallubuntu]

OK, the directory looks OK.

It looks like the chroot worked? You have a root prompt. Or did you login as root to get there?

If you did the chroot successfully, then do the grub-install and update-grub commands within the chroot environment.

But you'll have to look at the UUID thing I mentioned before and /mnt/temp/etc/fstab . Look for the line that has just "/" in it. The UUID must match the UUID of the new partition. Otherwise, it's not going to boot even after you've fixed Grub.

[boy18nj]

i never imagined, i would be stuck.

should i now go ahead with fresh ubuntu installation?

I installed fresh ubuntu in 20 minutes after taking backup's.

Am happy.

Earlier wasted 2 days in GRUB ubuntu issue.