Where is my ubuntu!

[coolman98]

I installed backtrack linux and now cannot boot my ubuntu partition. What can I do ?

[hansdown]

Hi coolman98.

Backtrack likely installed to the entire disk.

If you have a live ubuntu disk, you can "try ubuntu without changes", and click system> administration> gparted.

You should be able to see if the ubuntu partition is there, or not.

[coolman98]

No I dual booted. HELP

[Sef]

No I dual booted. HELP

With a Live CD open the Terminal, then copy and paste in this code:


sudo fdisk -l

That will show you what your partitions currently are.

Then copy and paste the results back here.

[hansdown]

No I dual booted. HELP

You can still use the live CD to make sure your ubuntu install is safe.

We can help you, if we know what we are dealing with.

[coolman98]

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000033d9 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13049 104815068+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 13050 19458 51473893+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 19087 19458 2978816 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 13050 18834 46467949+ 83 Linux /dev/sda7 18835 19086 2024158+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/sdb: 2000 MB, 2000682496 bytes 62 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders Units = cylinders of 3844 * 512 = 1968128 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 1016 1952721 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) root@bt:~#

[darkod]

Can you paste that inside CODE tags please?

Select the text and hit the # button in the toolbar above when creating the post.

PS. But to get a better look what is what, and which distro is installed where, you should really run the boot info script and post the content of the results file, again in CODE tags, as explained here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8844901&postcount=4

[coolman98]

is there anything that I could just
do in grub

[darkod]

is there anything that I could just
do in grub

Without more detailed information we can't really tell you anything. Issuing commands "on blind" can make things worse.

Besides, when installing backtrack you didn't need to install grub with it. When you already had one grub2 from ubuntu, it can boot any linux distro. No need to install grub again with every other linux install.

[coolman98]

sorry, the error was "error 15 file not found"
does that help?

[coolman98]

I install with the installer witch uses a modifies
version of ubiquity.

[coolman98]

hello.............

[wilee-nilee]

hello.............

I would follow darkods advice.;)