Hello All,
I run a dual boot through grub, Win7 and Ubuntu 12.04.
Silly AMD program decided to install a bunch of update, and silly me told it to go ahead. In the update were a bunch of drivers and, while it was not stated whatsoever, Norton Internet Security as well (I know I know, teh horror).
I am suspecting that Norton did some stupid stuff like it always does, and nuked grub somehow.
When I boot it goes into the grub recovery mode, stating that device XYZ was cannot be found (no such device). I fired up a live cd, tried looking up resolutions and got to a popular askubuntu thread, where they have you mount your linux partition, then run grub-install.
This is the thread I used:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/14366...ce-grub-rescue
This did not fix my issues unfortunately.
Here is the output for fdisk -l
Code:
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa1031c54
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 1953519615 976656384 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x651c7375
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 103049215 51523584 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 103051262 156301311 26625025 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 103051264 140644351 18796544 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 140646400 156301311 7827456 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdc: 2055 MB, 2055207936 bytes
33 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1930 cylinders, total 4014078 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 32 4014077 2007023 6 FAT16
From what I have been able to see was that sda1 is my 1tb drive I use for storage, and sdb is my windows / linux drive. sdb5 being the Ubuntu partition.
I tried to download grub customizer, but it does not help me much as there are a bunch of ! and - next to a few items, and I am not so sure what I need to change them to.
I tried the above thread method on sda1 and sdb5. Doing it on sdb5 did nothing, doing it on sda1 changed the grub boot, now when I reboot and start up "normally" (not live cd) I still get grub, but a different version.
When I boot in the Live CD I can see and access through /mount/partition UUID all 3 of the "data" partitions, that is, my 1Tb storage, the windows and the linux partitions.
Not sure where to go from here, please help
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