ambiogas
February 5th, 2010, 04:34 PM
I recently installed ubuntu 9.10 32 bit using live cd onto a recently new Dell machine with windows7.
Everything was fine for a couple of weeks, but last night I got the error:
Grub loading.
the symbol ` fil?
not found
Aborted
Looking into the forums, I see that maybe I need to re-install grub 2. When I started probing using fdisk, I saw that the boot partition was my windows partition. So, I thought I would ask to find out if this looks right before I start making things worse:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xca6eeadf
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 6 1918 15360000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1918 41471 317711636 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 41472 77825 292013505 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 41472 76605 282213823+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 76606 77825 9799618+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
aufs aufs 1.6G 49M 1.6G 3% /
udev tmpfs 1.6G 280K 1.6G 1% /dev
/dev/sr0 iso9660 690M 690M 0 100% /cdrom
/dev/loop0
squashfs 668M 668M 0 100% /rofs
none tmpfs 1.6G 100K 1.6G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 20K 1.6G 1% /tmp
none tmpfs 1.6G 88K 1.6G 1% /var/run
none tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /var/lock
none tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /lib/init/rw
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
If the boot partition is wrong, I have no idea how this could have happened...?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Andy
Everything was fine for a couple of weeks, but last night I got the error:
Grub loading.
the symbol ` fil?
not found
Aborted
Looking into the forums, I see that maybe I need to re-install grub 2. When I started probing using fdisk, I saw that the boot partition was my windows partition. So, I thought I would ask to find out if this looks right before I start making things worse:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xca6eeadf
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 6 1918 15360000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1918 41471 317711636 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 41472 77825 292013505 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 41472 76605 282213823+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 76606 77825 9799618+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
aufs aufs 1.6G 49M 1.6G 3% /
udev tmpfs 1.6G 280K 1.6G 1% /dev
/dev/sr0 iso9660 690M 690M 0 100% /cdrom
/dev/loop0
squashfs 668M 668M 0 100% /rofs
none tmpfs 1.6G 100K 1.6G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 20K 1.6G 1% /tmp
none tmpfs 1.6G 88K 1.6G 1% /var/run
none tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /var/lock
none tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /lib/init/rw
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
If the boot partition is wrong, I have no idea how this could have happened...?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Andy