Ubuntu not starting up correctly...?

[Tiger Fanfare]

Hi.
When I turn on my laptop it gives me the choice to select either "Ubuntu" or "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" to run, when I pick "Ubuntu", it shoots up this right away:

GRUB4DOS 0.4.4 2009-04-21, Memory: 639k / 1010M, MenuEnd: 0x43516
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grub>

Which I find rather odd, for before installing the "Ubuntu" OS, all the proper requirements were met.

Just curious how to fix it, it feels awful odd not being on a laptop, as I am on a PC right at this moment.

Selecting "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" spits up an error, but this is not the area to discuss that. :).

Cheers!
Tiger Fanfare

[merlinus]

Seems as though there is a problem with grub, which is the bootloader.

If you can run from the live cd, open a terminal and post output of:



sudo fdisk -l


You also might try supergrub.