Alabamian
August 30th, 2010, 05:35 AM
Previously, I had two drives, a 160 Gig SATA drive that originally was a dual boot system, and a Terabyte SATA drive that was a strictly Vista OS (and data) volume.
I was in a hurry to go to work having left my PC on all night to allow Upgrade Manager time to update me to 10.04. I wasn't paying attention, running through a bunch of questions Ubuntu asked me, and I mistakenly allowed my sdb1 drive (the Terabyte)to be fiddled with by grub. After I pressed okay, my heart sank, and with good reason.
Here's what df shows ...
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 78343648 6389848 67974100 9% /
none 995760 292 995468 1% /dev
none 995760 432 995328 1% /dev/shm
none 995760 96 995664 1% /var/run
none 995760 0 995760 0% /var/lock
none 995760 0 995760 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda1 72493276 46865980 25627296 65% /media/BAMA
/dev/sdb1 976760000 281808820 694951180 29% /media/DataGhar
It shows this after I go to my ROM and tell the system to boot from my Terabyte drive (sdb1). This makes no sense to me, but my old grub menu comes up, at least, so I can select Ubuntu or Windows as before.
If I don't go to my ROM and select the Terabyte drive, and simply allow the system to try and boot from my 160 Gb (sba5 for Ubuntu), I get the infamous ...
error: the symbol 'grub_puts_' not found
grub rescue>
and cast into grub rescue purgatory. If I select Vista from either the 160 Gb drive boot (standard option) or the Terabyte drive, I get this cryptic response from the beginnings of the Vista boot loader ...
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
When I force the boot from sdb1, I get all kinds of errors on bootup, mostly that the NTFS drive (Terabyte one) won't load and press 'S' to skip loading. When I press S, Ubuntu loads up, and my NTFS volume mounts to the desktop anyway. Also, it permits me to post this message and my computer to function at all.
Now, I've already read all the posts about how to fix grub, but so far, they all start with "Boot from the LiveCD" Well, I've replaced my old 17" 4:3 monitor with one of those new 25" 9:16 ones. Oh yeah. But now the LiveCD simply goes blank. I hear the drive grinding, so I'm pretty sure it loads okay, only I've got no video.
I've even unplugged my 160 Gig drive, booted from the Vista CD, and tried to Repair the Startup volume, with Vista insisting the drive is fine and asking me if I have a smartphone plugged in and if I do, I need to contact the manufacturer. Punt Vista, punt!
Any advice is appreciated. Obviously I need to fix grub on sda5, but I need to do this without the aid of the LiveCD. Also, might I have better luck using the Alternate CD? Why doesn't Ubuntu include a universal driver so that, even if you have to use crummy 800x600 on a 25" screen, at least you SEE the screen and can click okay or whatever to get grub loaded back again? Any advice is appreciated.
Thank you ahead of time.
I was in a hurry to go to work having left my PC on all night to allow Upgrade Manager time to update me to 10.04. I wasn't paying attention, running through a bunch of questions Ubuntu asked me, and I mistakenly allowed my sdb1 drive (the Terabyte)to be fiddled with by grub. After I pressed okay, my heart sank, and with good reason.
Here's what df shows ...
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 78343648 6389848 67974100 9% /
none 995760 292 995468 1% /dev
none 995760 432 995328 1% /dev/shm
none 995760 96 995664 1% /var/run
none 995760 0 995760 0% /var/lock
none 995760 0 995760 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda1 72493276 46865980 25627296 65% /media/BAMA
/dev/sdb1 976760000 281808820 694951180 29% /media/DataGhar
It shows this after I go to my ROM and tell the system to boot from my Terabyte drive (sdb1). This makes no sense to me, but my old grub menu comes up, at least, so I can select Ubuntu or Windows as before.
If I don't go to my ROM and select the Terabyte drive, and simply allow the system to try and boot from my 160 Gb (sba5 for Ubuntu), I get the infamous ...
error: the symbol 'grub_puts_' not found
grub rescue>
and cast into grub rescue purgatory. If I select Vista from either the 160 Gb drive boot (standard option) or the Terabyte drive, I get this cryptic response from the beginnings of the Vista boot loader ...
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
When I force the boot from sdb1, I get all kinds of errors on bootup, mostly that the NTFS drive (Terabyte one) won't load and press 'S' to skip loading. When I press S, Ubuntu loads up, and my NTFS volume mounts to the desktop anyway. Also, it permits me to post this message and my computer to function at all.
Now, I've already read all the posts about how to fix grub, but so far, they all start with "Boot from the LiveCD" Well, I've replaced my old 17" 4:3 monitor with one of those new 25" 9:16 ones. Oh yeah. But now the LiveCD simply goes blank. I hear the drive grinding, so I'm pretty sure it loads okay, only I've got no video.
I've even unplugged my 160 Gig drive, booted from the Vista CD, and tried to Repair the Startup volume, with Vista insisting the drive is fine and asking me if I have a smartphone plugged in and if I do, I need to contact the manufacturer. Punt Vista, punt!
Any advice is appreciated. Obviously I need to fix grub on sda5, but I need to do this without the aid of the LiveCD. Also, might I have better luck using the Alternate CD? Why doesn't Ubuntu include a universal driver so that, even if you have to use crummy 800x600 on a 25" screen, at least you SEE the screen and can click okay or whatever to get grub loaded back again? Any advice is appreciated.
Thank you ahead of time.