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smacfarl
October 31st, 2009, 03:52 PM
9.10 is on a secondary partition of the main harddrive.

I have vista on the first partition which I extended from 30gb to 60 gb. I used the Wubi install process to creat an ext4 partition in the 30gb after that, and then created a 4gb swap partition after the ext4 partition. Ubuntu installed onto the ext4 partition.

I rebooted and added an Ubuntu option via easybcd to the windows boot loader. When I select Ubuntu with windows bootloader I now boot into a grub2 console.

ls is not listed as a command when typing help from this console.

Typing ls at the command prompt generates error 32 unrecognized command.

The wubi identified the ext4 partition as hda5. When I used the advanced option to install grub2 in the wubi it seems to have created a grub.cfg file that I can see when I mount the 40gb ext4 volume from the live CD. When grub launches it seems to be looking for a menu.lst file rather than grub.cfd right before it launches me into the console.

What went wrong? What can I do to fix this?

smacfarl
November 4th, 2009, 04:31 AM
Bump. Still not working.

smacfarl
November 5th, 2009, 12:54 AM
Bump. It's been 4 days any body here have any thoughts?

jkhh07
November 5th, 2009, 12:59 AM
whats the forum you used to install grub2?

smacfarl
November 7th, 2009, 04:23 AM
Forum? What do you mean forum?

Grub2 is installed by default with 9.10. 9.10 installed it.