Nimh Rod
July 31st, 2010, 07:20 AM
I am a linux/ubuntu newbie. I will appreciate any help and advice offered.
I successfully installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop running 32-bit vista. I was able to dual boot into the windows partition or launch Ubuntu from its own partition. After being notified of 200+ updates while in Ubuntu, I said yes to them all. Somehow in the update process and subsequent reboot I lost the ability to launch either Vista or Ubuntu. Below is the prompt:
error: no such device: [my hard drive]
grub rescue>
Yes, I do have a Vista recovery/repair disc.
Yes, I do have a Ubuntu live cd
Yes, I have run the boot info script from sourceforge. The results of the results.txt file are below. I hope this info is helpful to diagnose a solution as to what I can do to be able to launch Vista or Ubuntu at boot. Thanks for any assistance. Sincerely.
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
partition #256 for /boot/grub.
sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
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
/wubildr.mbr /wubildr
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: /ubuntu/winboot/wubildr.mbr /ubuntu/winboot/wubildr
/ubuntu/disks/root.disk /ubuntu/disks/swap.disk
sda2/Wubi: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
sda3: __________________________________________________ _______________________
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: /bootmgr /boot/BCD
=========================== 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
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 264,020,054 264,019,992 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 264,022,016 295,692,287 31,670,272 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 295,692,390 312,576,704 16,884,315 7 HPFS/NTFS
blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/loop1 d8842d1f-45b9-4b88-9ef3-72a08ea5f287 ext4
/dev/sda1 1528C3BB4F6FA148 ntfs
/dev/sda2 CA5CDC805CDC6929 ntfs Linux
/dev/sda3 2C88743C8874071C ntfs HP_RECOVERY
/dev/sda: PTTYPE="dos"
============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
aufs / aufs (rw)
/dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 (ro,noatime)
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (ro,noatime)
I successfully installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop running 32-bit vista. I was able to dual boot into the windows partition or launch Ubuntu from its own partition. After being notified of 200+ updates while in Ubuntu, I said yes to them all. Somehow in the update process and subsequent reboot I lost the ability to launch either Vista or Ubuntu. Below is the prompt:
error: no such device: [my hard drive]
grub rescue>
Yes, I do have a Vista recovery/repair disc.
Yes, I do have a Ubuntu live cd
Yes, I have run the boot info script from sourceforge. The results of the results.txt file are below. I hope this info is helpful to diagnose a solution as to what I can do to be able to launch Vista or Ubuntu at boot. Thanks for any assistance. Sincerely.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
partition #256 for /boot/grub.
sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
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
/wubildr.mbr /wubildr
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: /ubuntu/winboot/wubildr.mbr /ubuntu/winboot/wubildr
/ubuntu/disks/root.disk /ubuntu/disks/swap.disk
sda2/Wubi: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
sda3: __________________________________________________ _______________________
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: /bootmgr /boot/BCD
=========================== 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
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 264,020,054 264,019,992 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 264,022,016 295,692,287 31,670,272 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 295,692,390 312,576,704 16,884,315 7 HPFS/NTFS
blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/loop1 d8842d1f-45b9-4b88-9ef3-72a08ea5f287 ext4
/dev/sda1 1528C3BB4F6FA148 ntfs
/dev/sda2 CA5CDC805CDC6929 ntfs Linux
/dev/sda3 2C88743C8874071C ntfs HP_RECOVERY
/dev/sda: PTTYPE="dos"
============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
aufs / aufs (rw)
/dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 (ro,noatime)
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (ro,noatime)