williamsjp2004
January 13th, 2009, 03:02 AM
I'm sorry if I have posted a resolved topic but I have searched all day to find the answer to my problem and have not found it.
I installed Ubuntu a while back and it would not boot to my XP installation. I would select to boot from grub and it would hang on the loading os screen.
I fixed the MBR with Windows XP cd and, as expected, it wiped grub. Now my problem is, when I try to boot from Ubuntu 8.10 live cd, it shows the splash screen with the Ubuntu logo then goes to something that LOOKS like a terminal screen then it tells me I have to mount the partition or something.
I want to boot to the live cd desktop so I can access the terminal and, as I understand it, give it the command to reinstall grub as follows:
sudo grub
root hd0,0
setup hd0
exit
I have tried bringning up terminal in the "command prompt" screen with ctrl+alt+F1 but to no avail.
If you can help it would be highly appreciated.
~James~
I installed Ubuntu a while back and it would not boot to my XP installation. I would select to boot from grub and it would hang on the loading os screen.
I fixed the MBR with Windows XP cd and, as expected, it wiped grub. Now my problem is, when I try to boot from Ubuntu 8.10 live cd, it shows the splash screen with the Ubuntu logo then goes to something that LOOKS like a terminal screen then it tells me I have to mount the partition or something.
I want to boot to the live cd desktop so I can access the terminal and, as I understand it, give it the command to reinstall grub as follows:
sudo grub
root hd0,0
setup hd0
exit
I have tried bringning up terminal in the "command prompt" screen with ctrl+alt+F1 but to no avail.
If you can help it would be highly appreciated.
~James~