problems today after update manager run

[ak331]

this morning i ran update manager and it was working fine before that.

when it told me to restart what i got was grub starting followed by the following :


>grub to see menu hit tab to see all acpi

I followed all I could comprehend but reboot brings it to grub menu and does not any further.

when I do the following
$ sudo fdisk -l

I get the following message.
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7753 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0000675f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7752 58605088+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x761360a9

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 14195 114019888+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2 14196 19457 42267015 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 14196 18815 37110118+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 18816 19457 5156833+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdc: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x017b966e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 30401 244196001 7 HPFS/NTFS


I checked the /boot/grub directory there is no menu.lst in the directory.

I wonder what happened here. I hope to fix it without reinstalling the ubuntu 9.10 all over again.

any help appreciated.

[phillw]

Hi,

If you're running a clean install of 9.10, then grub has changed to a new version.

For issues dual booting (It looks like you have windows & ubuntu), then http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014708 Should sort you out.

I'm reading your system as the operating systems (windows & ubuntu) being on your 2nd hard drive - so, you'll be looking to do grub work / mbr work on sdb.

If you need to rebuild Grub2 from the LiveCD, then it's step 12 here --> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275 which also has a link to more in depth look at it.

If you're still unsure, please post back & I'll get drs, our Grub2 guru, to look at it for you.

Regards,

Phill.