Grub error 22

[Johndo1]

My friend was messing with his partitions and something wen't wrong. When he rebooted his Grub gave the error: Grub error 22. He doesn't have internet right now. Know of any fixes? He's booted into a live cd.

Ubuntu 9.10

[presence1960]

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Stage1_002e5-errors

Messing with the partitions? Well GRUB is now pointing to a non-existant partition. Let's get a better look at your setup & boot process. Boot the Ubuntu Live CD/USB. Choose "try ubuntu without any changes", when the desktop loads come back here and use the link in my signature to download the Boot Info Script to the desktop. Once on desktop open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and run this command
sudo bash ~/Desktop/boot_info_script*.sh This will create a RESULTS.txt file on the desktop. Paste the entire contents of that file back here. Once pasted highlight all text and click the # sign on the toolbar to place code tags around the text.

[Johndo1]

Unfortunately he doesn't have internet. I'll try to get him over to my house and we'll do what you said.

[presence1960]

Unfortunately he doesn't have internet. I'll try to get him over to my house and we'll do what you said.

I will need that info to see exactly how the partitions are setup now so we can configure GRUB to boot again.

[Johndo1]

here is the entire document.





============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================

=> Grub 0.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive
in partition #9 for /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst.
sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Dell Utility: Fat16
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

sda3: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows Vista
Boot files/dirs: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe

sda4: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sda5: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Vista: Fat 32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows XP
Boot files/dirs: /boot.ini /bootmgr /ntldr /NTDETECT.COM

sda6: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sda7: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system:
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed:
mount: unknown filesystem type ''

sda8: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system:
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed:
mount: unknown filesystem type ''
mount: unknown filesystem type ''

=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0000000

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sda1 63 208,844 208,782 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 208,896 21,180,415 20,971,520 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 22,362,480 261,136,574 238,774,095 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 261,136,699 312,578,047 51,441,349 f W95 Ext d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 307,337,216 312,578,047 5,240,832 dd Dell Media Direct
/dev/sda6 306,986,148 307,323,449 337,302 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 307,323,513 307,337,215 13,703 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 261,136,764 302,118,389 40,981,626 83 Linux


blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/sda1 07D8-0303 vfat DellUtility
/dev/sda2 10601B24601B1058 ntfs RECOVERY
/dev/sda3 BEBE1ECEBE1E7ED9 ntfs OS
/dev/sda5 C422-C7F0 vfat MEDIADIRECT
/dev/sda6 becf7bde-18d2-45e4-8054-32c42392f1d2 swap

============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================

Device Mount_Point Type Options

aufs / aufs (rw)
/dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 (rw)
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (rw)


================================ sda5/boot.ini: ================================

[boot loader]

timeout=0

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect /KERNEL=NTOSBOOT.EXE /maxmem=1024

=========================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc =======================

Unknown BootLoader on sda8

00000000 ff a1 00 00 2a 00 00 00 6a 55 5a 4b aa 68 ec 4a |....*...jUZK.h.J|
00000010 aa 68 ec 4a 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 |.h.J............|
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2e 2e 2f 63 6f 6e 66 2e |........../conf.|
00000030 61 76 61 69 6c 2f 35 33 2d 6d 6f 6e 6f 73 70 61 |avail/53-monospa|
00000040 63 65 2d 6c 63 64 2d 66 69 6c 74 65 72 2e 63 6f |ce-lcd-filter.co|
00000050 6e 66 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |nf..............|
00000060 00 00 00 00 04 42 ae 55 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.....B.U........|
00000070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000080 ff a1 00 00 1b 00 00 00 6a 55 5a 4b aa 68 ec 4a |........jUZK.h.J|
00000090 aa 68 ec 4a 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 |.h.J............|
000000a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2e 2e 2f 63 6f 6e 66 2e |........../conf.|
000000b0 61 76 61 69 6c 2f 36 30 2d 6c 61 74 69 6e 2e 63 |avail/60-latin.c|
000000c0 6f 6e 66 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |onf.............|
000000d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000000e0 00 00 00 00 05 42 ae 55 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.....B.U........|
000000f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000100 ff a1 00 00 26 00 00 00 6a 55 5a 4b aa 68 ec 4a |....&...jUZK.h.J|
00000110 aa 68 ec 4a 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 |.h.J............|
00000120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2e 2e 2f 63 6f 6e 66 2e |........../conf.|
00000130 61 76 61 69 6c 2f 36 34 2d 74 74 66 2d 61 72 70 |avail/64-ttf-arp|
00000140 68 69 63 2d 75 6d 69 6e 67 2e 63 6f 6e 66 00 00 |hic-uming.conf..|
00000150 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000160 00 00 00 00 06 42 ae 55 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.....B.U........|
00000170 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000180 a4 81 e8 03 97 52 05 00 e6 83 4a 4b e6 83 4a 4b |.....R....JK..JK|
00000190 e6 83 4a 4b 00 00 00 00 e8 03 01 00 b8 02 00 00 |..JK............|
000001a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 01 10 00 00 |................|
000001b0 02 10 00 00 03 10 00 00 04 10 00 00 05 10 00 00 |................|
000001c0 06 10 00 00 07 10 00 00 08 10 00 00 09 10 00 00 |................|
000001d0 0a 10 00 00 0b 10 00 00 0c 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000001e0 00 00 00 00 89 65 65 93 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.....ee.........|
000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000200

[presence1960]

Ok you got a little mess there. Your sda7 & sda8 have a problem and are unmountable. GRUB 0.97 is on MBR (as it should be!) but looks to sda9 for /boot/grub/menu.lst

sda9 does not exist. I am assuming when you did whatever you tried to do that your Ubuntu partition is now sda8 (root).

Try runing fsck from the Ubuntu Live CD. Boot the CD and choose "try ubuntu without any changes", when the desktop loads open a terminal and run
sudo e2fsck /dev/sda8 -y -f -v -c
let it complete.

Then open a file browser and see if you can mount sda8 by highlighting it on the left pane. If you aren't sure which partitions are which run another boot info script and post it back here. Hopefully those partitions can now be mounted and we can find out if they are your ubuntu partitions or not.

Hopefully sda8 is ubuntu. If they are not we can fix the MBR so windows can boot if need be. Then you can reinstall ubuntu at your leisure.

[Johndo1]

my ubuntu used to be on sda9 but now for some reason it says its on sda8 not sure how that happened but ill try what you said.

[presence1960]

my ubuntu used to be on sda9 but now for some reason it says its on sda8 not sure how that happened but ill try what you said.

recheck my post. I edited it. sda7 is too small to be ubuntu root.

[Johndo1]

this is what i have now.


============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================

=> Grub 0.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive
in partition #9 for /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst.
sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Dell Utility: Fat16
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

sda3: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows Vista
Boot files/dirs: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe

sda4: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sda5: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Vista: Fat 32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows XP
Boot files/dirs: /boot.ini /bootmgr /ntldr /NTDETECT.COM

sda6: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sda7: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system:
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed:
mount: unknown filesystem type ''

sda8: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system:
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed:
mount: unknown filesystem type ''
mount: unknown filesystem type ''

=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0000000

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sda1 63 208,844 208,782 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 208,896 21,180,415 20,971,520 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 22,362,480 261,136,574 238,774,095 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 261,136,699 312,578,047 51,441,349 f W95 Ext d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 307,337,216 312,578,047 5,240,832 dd Dell Media Direct
/dev/sda6 306,986,148 307,323,449 337,302 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 307,323,513 307,337,215 13,703 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 261,136,764 302,118,389 40,981,626 83 Linux


blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/sda1 07D8-0303 vfat DellUtility
/dev/sda2 10601B24601B1058 ntfs RECOVERY
/dev/sda3 BEBE1ECEBE1E7ED9 ntfs OS
/dev/sda5 C422-C7F0 vfat MEDIADIRECT
/dev/sda6 becf7bde-18d2-45e4-8054-32c42392f1d2 swap

============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================

Device Mount_Point Type Options

aufs / aufs (rw)
/dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 (rw)
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (rw)


================================ sda5/boot.ini: ================================

[boot loader]

timeout=0

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect /KERNEL=NTOSBOOT.EXE /maxmem=1024

=========================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc =======================

Unknown BootLoader on sda8

00000000 ff a1 00 00 2a 00 00 00 6a 55 5a 4b aa 68 ec 4a |....*...jUZK.h.J|
00000010 aa 68 ec 4a 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 |.h.J............|
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2e 2e 2f 63 6f 6e 66 2e |........../conf.|
00000030 61 76 61 69 6c 2f 35 33 2d 6d 6f 6e 6f 73 70 61 |avail/53-monospa|
00000040 63 65 2d 6c 63 64 2d 66 69 6c 74 65 72 2e 63 6f |ce-lcd-filter.co|
00000050 6e 66 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |nf..............|
00000060 00 00 00 00 04 42 ae 55 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.....B.U........|
00000070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000080 ff a1 00 00 1b 00 00 00 6a 55 5a 4b aa 68 ec 4a |........jUZK.h.J|
00000090 aa 68 ec 4a 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 |.h.J............|
000000a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2e 2e 2f 63 6f 6e 66 2e |........../conf.|
000000b0 61 76 61 69 6c 2f 36 30 2d 6c 61 74 69 6e 2e 63 |avail/60-latin.c|
000000c0 6f 6e 66 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |onf.............|
000000d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000000e0 00 00 00 00 05 42 ae 55 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.....B.U........|
000000f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000100 ff a1 00 00 26 00 00 00 6a 55 5a 4b aa 68 ec 4a |....&...jUZK.h.J|
00000110 aa 68 ec 4a 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 |.h.J............|
00000120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2e 2e 2f 63 6f 6e 66 2e |........../conf.|
00000130 61 76 61 69 6c 2f 36 34 2d 74 74 66 2d 61 72 70 |avail/64-ttf-arp|
00000140 68 69 63 2d 75 6d 69 6e 67 2e 63 6f 6e 66 00 00 |hic-uming.conf..|
00000150 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000160 00 00 00 00 06 42 ae 55 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.....B.U........|
00000170 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000180 a4 81 e8 03 97 52 05 00 e6 83 4a 4b e6 83 4a 4b |.....R....JK..JK|
00000190 e6 83 4a 4b 00 00 00 00 e8 03 01 00 b8 02 00 00 |..JK............|
000001a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 01 10 00 00 |................|
000001b0 02 10 00 00 03 10 00 00 04 10 00 00 05 10 00 00 |................|
000001c0 06 10 00 00 07 10 00 00 08 10 00 00 09 10 00 00 |................|
000001d0 0a 10 00 00 0b 10 00 00 0c 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000001e0 00 00 00 00 89 65 65 93 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.....ee.........|
000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000200

[presence1960]

At this point since you can't mount sda8 to even see what it is I would have to say reinstall ubuntu. Unless you have important data on sda7 & sda8 delete those partitions using gparted from the Live Cd and reinstall.

[Johndo1]

i just reinstalled ubuntu over everything because i really didnt need anythong else on there. but now i cant activate any of my hardware drivers or update because i need to activate them in order to connect to the internet (my only access to the internet is a wireless connection)

[|{urse]

Oh..

http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/

Works great, in a pinch.

[Johndo1]

im not able to do that because i need to activate my hardware drivers in order to connect to the internet.

[|{urse]

Oh I see, I guess I didnt catch that part. You have no ethernet connection available, only wireless. You're gonna have to ask a friend if you can use their jack or do it at school if you go to school. I've been in your situation before, sucks man.