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November 13th, 2010, 04:23 PM
hi all,
i just upgraded an install of 10.04 to 10.10 using the built-in software upgrade manager and upon reboot i am seeing the 'basic grub' command line interface.
the laptop is a dell inspiron 6400 and is set to dual boot within win7.
i originally installed ubuntu from inside windows (if i recall correctly) - so there doesn't appear to be a specific partition for ubuntu visible anwhere.. i guess it must be some kind of hidden file structure on the c: drive that is being used for windows.
can anyone give me any tips or links to pages that can explain how to resolve this?
i've read through the notes that i have found on the ubuntu website so far and have seen people describe a similar outcome, but not when upgrading in exactly the way that i have done.
i'm pretty new to linux so don't really know where to start..
i don't really have a problem with wiping the whole hard drive and starting again.. except that i have some data on the linux 'partition' that i'd like to get off first.. and i am not able to locate it through win7.. i just installed the app from http://fs-driver.org to see if that helped, but it didn't detect any linux data as far as i can see.
anyone?
thanks
i just upgraded an install of 10.04 to 10.10 using the built-in software upgrade manager and upon reboot i am seeing the 'basic grub' command line interface.
the laptop is a dell inspiron 6400 and is set to dual boot within win7.
i originally installed ubuntu from inside windows (if i recall correctly) - so there doesn't appear to be a specific partition for ubuntu visible anwhere.. i guess it must be some kind of hidden file structure on the c: drive that is being used for windows.
can anyone give me any tips or links to pages that can explain how to resolve this?
i've read through the notes that i have found on the ubuntu website so far and have seen people describe a similar outcome, but not when upgrading in exactly the way that i have done.
i'm pretty new to linux so don't really know where to start..
i don't really have a problem with wiping the whole hard drive and starting again.. except that i have some data on the linux 'partition' that i'd like to get off first.. and i am not able to locate it through win7.. i just installed the app from http://fs-driver.org to see if that helped, but it didn't detect any linux data as far as i can see.
anyone?
thanks