mattlach
July 21st, 2010, 04:37 AM
I'd appreciate your feedback here.
My /dev/sda drive has three partitons on it as follows:
sda1 Windows7 system partition
sda2 Windows 7 partition
sda4 Ubuntu Partition
Today I shrunk the ubuntu partition moving it towards the end of the drive in order to get more space for my Windows 7 partition (that pig of an OS is always growing). I then grew the Windows 7 partition to fill the space. I did this using gparted on the 10.04 live disk.
I've done stuff like this many times before without problems. This time after reboot, the system won't boot. Grub never loads.
The first time grub actually loaded, giving me the grub repair console. Second time I tried booting I just get a message that says "read error".
Not being a stranger to boot problems, I booted back up with the live CD to see what was going on. To my surprise all partitions are still in good health and their numbers on the drive have not changed. I mounted my root partition (/dev/sda4) in /mnt and installed grub again using:
grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda
Grub installs successfully. Thinking this is behind me I reboot again, only to find the "Read Error" message.
I can't seem to figure out what is going on here. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt
My /dev/sda drive has three partitons on it as follows:
sda1 Windows7 system partition
sda2 Windows 7 partition
sda4 Ubuntu Partition
Today I shrunk the ubuntu partition moving it towards the end of the drive in order to get more space for my Windows 7 partition (that pig of an OS is always growing). I then grew the Windows 7 partition to fill the space. I did this using gparted on the 10.04 live disk.
I've done stuff like this many times before without problems. This time after reboot, the system won't boot. Grub never loads.
The first time grub actually loaded, giving me the grub repair console. Second time I tried booting I just get a message that says "read error".
Not being a stranger to boot problems, I booted back up with the live CD to see what was going on. To my surprise all partitions are still in good health and their numbers on the drive have not changed. I mounted my root partition (/dev/sda4) in /mnt and installed grub again using:
grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda
Grub installs successfully. Thinking this is behind me I reboot again, only to find the "Read Error" message.
I can't seem to figure out what is going on here. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt