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BacteriaEP
October 6th, 2010, 02:59 AM
I know this issue has been posted before and I honestly tried to follow those other posts threads, but it's just not working, maybe because of my unique issue? Not sure... Here's what happened:

I installed Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit as a dual boot from Windows 7 about 2 months ago. Today, I decided to remove the 64 bit version and reinstall a 32 bit version since the 64 bit version simply didn't work. So I followed all the natural steps:

1. Delete the Ubuntu partition in Windows, clear it and start over fresh.
2. Download and burn Ubuntu 32 bit onto a CD.
3. Boot the CD and install directly from there.

Everything was going great until mid-install I got an error message saying something about my HDD messed up, yada yada yada. I don't remember the exact message, my install only got about 40% through. Once I clicked "Continue" the system just went into a sort of blank Ubuntu state. I had a mouse and the purple wallpaper, but no UI to speak of or anything like that.

At this point I was annoyed, but I figured... whatever, I'll just boot back into Windows delate the partition again, and start the process over again. No big deal right?

Unfortunately, when I went to boot into Windows I got nothing but a "grub rescue:" prompt before I could do anything. The only thing I can seem to do is boot into the live CD, which is what I've done now.

I've read the other threads so I know you guys are going to look for this boot info script (BELOW).

Any help is greatly appreciated, even if it's only to get me back into Windows.

Thank you.

Darkness Des
October 6th, 2010, 03:04 AM
Well, you were on the right track and you were, in all honesty, doing quite well until you hit the boot info script. That is the source behind it. We need you to actually run it.

BacteriaEP
October 6th, 2010, 03:10 AM
Well, you were on the right track and you were, in all honesty, doing quite well until you hit the boot info script. That is the source behind it. We need you to actually run it.

Ah... blond moment. Hopefully this is what you were looking for:


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 #5 for /boot/grub.
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb

sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

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

sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files/dirs: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe

sdb1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

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:

sdb2: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sdb5: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sdb5 starts
at sector 2. But according to the info from fdisk,
sdb5 starts at sector 331370496.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

sdb6: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sdb7: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Boot files/dirs: /etc/fstab

sdb8: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 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 30,796,604 30,796,542 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 30,796,605 625,137,344 594,340,740 7 HPFS/NTFS


Drive: sdb ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sdb1 63 37,372,501 37,372,439 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 37,373,950 625,141,759 587,767,810 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 331,370,496 613,130,239 281,759,744 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 613,132,288 625,141,759 12,009,472 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb7 37,373,952 319,348,735 281,974,784 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 319,350,784 331,356,159 12,005,376 82 Linux swap / Solaris


blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/sda1 C6F86154F86143B1 ntfs Recovery
/dev/sda2 78B48EC4B48E847A ntfs Partition_1
/dev/sda: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdb1 124C91674C9145FF ntfs
/dev/sdb2: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdb5 B0A209C1A2098D52 ntfs New Volume
/dev/sdb6 79eca2e6-0a16-4051-9f67-72f6f515648a swap
/dev/sdb7 39cf119c-5653-4d17-ae71-3e1fdc7262ec ext4
/dev/sdb8 b9df6388-f8ff-4b64-8173-4f5a0a1d0998 swap
/dev/sdb: PTTYPE="dos"
error: /dev/sdc: No medium found
error: /dev/sdd: No medium found
error: /dev/sde: No medium found
error: /dev/sdf: No medium found

============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================

Device Mount_Point Type Options

aufs / aufs (rw)
/dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 (ro,noatime)
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (ro,noatime)


=============================== sdb7/etc/fstab: ===============================

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sdb7 during installation
UUID=39cf119c-5653-4d17-ae71-3e1fdc7262ec / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sdb8 during installation
UUID=b9df6388-f8ff-4b64-8173-4f5a0a1d0998 none swap sw 0 0
=======Devices which don't seem to have a corresponding hard drive==============

sdc sdd sde sdf