boot problem

[poupik]

hello

i am really new at this..
i installed ubuntu today, alongside windows.
my disk was partitioned before the installation.

i managed to boot a couple of times before it started giving me a "no file system" message and a 'grub>' prompt instead of the grub menu.

i booted from the installation cd.

of course i started messing around.. and now i have some more partitions, and some unallocated disc space that i cant put back together.

another thing i noticed is, that in the 'Disk Utility', there showed up a 'peripheral device' wich is 704 mb something with the title 'filesystem.squashfs' and declares that its 'device' is /dev/loop0.

i am really lost!
please help.

thank you

[neonathon]

first, don't touch that 704mb file. if it were on my computer, i would be avoiding that thing like the plague. second, have you altered any files with windows while Ubuntu was installed like a virus scan?

[poupik]

no. since i installed ubuntu i didnt run windows.

and ok, i will avoid it, but what should i do?

thanks

[neonathon]

1) don't upgrade grub.

2) what version of windows an ubuntu

[poupik]

(1) i wouldnt even if i knew how
(2) xp, 10.04

[oldfred]

From the liveCD run this:

Boot Info Script courtesy of forum member meierfra
Page with instructions and download:
http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/
Be sure to highlight and use code tags (# in edit panel) to make it easier to read when you post the results.txt.