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January 7th, 2011, 04:46 AM
early tl;dr: The fancy grub breaks on my wubi 10.04 install, can I force it to use the old grub?
When I rebuild grub.cfg (last time was yesterday for kernel update to .37), and shut down / reboot, grub breaks because it can't 'loadfont' and a few other errors which are related to the 'graphical' grub boot menu.
To fix this I have to boot into a live CD (also Ubuntu 10.04) and run the following:
Taken from http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5004
sudo fdisk -l
sudo mkdir /win
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /win
sudo mkdir /vdisk
sudo mount -o loop /win/ubuntu/disks/root.disk /vdiskThat gets my wubi install mounted to /vdisk. From there I run the command:
gksu gedit /vdisk/boot/grub/grub.cfgand delete everything before the first 'menuentry'. This fixes it every time - but booting into the live CD to do the above is time-consuming: Is there a way for me deny grub from using the 'graphics' version?
Additional information:
The wubi install is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Wubi is mounted inside a broken Windows XP pro. 32bit install
I am therefore Dual-booting with just Windows 7 64 bit
The order of the bootloaders goes Windows 7 -> Grub, so I can still access Windows 7 when Ubuntu breaks
Switching to a full linux installation is not an option, sorry.
??? I know how to fix it but is there a way to skip having to do this on upgrades
(If I edit the grub.cfg before shutting down then this doesn't happen, obviously, but sometimes I forget and this is the result. I'd rather stop the problem at it's source than fight against the updater).
When I rebuild grub.cfg (last time was yesterday for kernel update to .37), and shut down / reboot, grub breaks because it can't 'loadfont' and a few other errors which are related to the 'graphical' grub boot menu.
To fix this I have to boot into a live CD (also Ubuntu 10.04) and run the following:
Taken from http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5004
sudo fdisk -l
sudo mkdir /win
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /win
sudo mkdir /vdisk
sudo mount -o loop /win/ubuntu/disks/root.disk /vdiskThat gets my wubi install mounted to /vdisk. From there I run the command:
gksu gedit /vdisk/boot/grub/grub.cfgand delete everything before the first 'menuentry'. This fixes it every time - but booting into the live CD to do the above is time-consuming: Is there a way for me deny grub from using the 'graphics' version?
Additional information:
The wubi install is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Wubi is mounted inside a broken Windows XP pro. 32bit install
I am therefore Dual-booting with just Windows 7 64 bit
The order of the bootloaders goes Windows 7 -> Grub, so I can still access Windows 7 when Ubuntu breaks
Switching to a full linux installation is not an option, sorry.
??? I know how to fix it but is there a way to skip having to do this on upgrades
(If I edit the grub.cfg before shutting down then this doesn't happen, obviously, but sometimes I forget and this is the result. I'd rather stop the problem at it's source than fight against the updater).