byzantophile
January 11th, 2011, 04:40 AM
Hello all. I am brand new to Ubuntu and really like it. Please forgive me for posting what I suspect is a problem many others have had...I've been searching this forum for several hours, but can't find a solution that seems to work. Sorry if this is repetitive, but I just don't understand the fix.
I have an Acer Eee PC 1001PX. It came with Windows 7 loaded on it. My friend gave me Ubuntu (I think it was 9.10 but not totally sure) on a flash drive to try, and if I liked it, install. I tried it, booting from the flash drive, for about a week and then decided this morning to install.
I should have had it replace Windows instead of install Ubuntu on another partition. My bad--I now realize Windows doesn't like to share power. Anyway, even with that, the computer did fine booting up with Ubuntu--it offered me a choice of whether to boot with that or Windows. No problems so far.
This afternoon I was booting up the computer and guess I accidentally hit the selection to boot Windows instead. After it tried to boot Windows, nothing would work. Now I get a blank screen and "error: no such partition," and below that, "grub rescue> ".
My situation is quite similar to this one which was posted a few months ago:
http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1492072
I cannot access a CD-Rom because this computer has no CD-Rom drive.
I cannot boot from the USB flash drive. Although I can get in to the settings (via F2) and prioritized the boot-up locations, for some reason it won't boot from there.
No commands will work except for ls, set and insmod.
I have no idea what any of this means--but I tried everything I could do in that thread (and this one, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1448479) but, from what limited amount I understand from these topics, I can't get anywhere unless I can boot from somewhere else--and I can't.
When I type ls here's what comes up:
(hd0) (hd0,msdos4) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos2,msdos5) (hd0,msdos2,msdos1) (hd0,msdos2,msdos1)
When I type "set" it says:
prefix=(hd0,msdos5)/boot/grub
root=hd0,msdos5
I'm assuming this information is important and I have to set the prefix to something in order for something else to work.
Can anyone tell me what to do from here? I'd love to get Ubuntu back.
Once again, just to be clear:
I have no CD-Rom drive so I can't load or boot anything from there.
I don't have, and never had, any sort of recovery discs anyway.
I cannot boot from the USB flash drive, even though the computer's settings say that's the preferred source.
Can anyone help?
:confused:
Thank you very much for your time in reading this.
I have an Acer Eee PC 1001PX. It came with Windows 7 loaded on it. My friend gave me Ubuntu (I think it was 9.10 but not totally sure) on a flash drive to try, and if I liked it, install. I tried it, booting from the flash drive, for about a week and then decided this morning to install.
I should have had it replace Windows instead of install Ubuntu on another partition. My bad--I now realize Windows doesn't like to share power. Anyway, even with that, the computer did fine booting up with Ubuntu--it offered me a choice of whether to boot with that or Windows. No problems so far.
This afternoon I was booting up the computer and guess I accidentally hit the selection to boot Windows instead. After it tried to boot Windows, nothing would work. Now I get a blank screen and "error: no such partition," and below that, "grub rescue> ".
My situation is quite similar to this one which was posted a few months ago:
http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1492072
I cannot access a CD-Rom because this computer has no CD-Rom drive.
I cannot boot from the USB flash drive. Although I can get in to the settings (via F2) and prioritized the boot-up locations, for some reason it won't boot from there.
No commands will work except for ls, set and insmod.
I have no idea what any of this means--but I tried everything I could do in that thread (and this one, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1448479) but, from what limited amount I understand from these topics, I can't get anywhere unless I can boot from somewhere else--and I can't.
When I type ls here's what comes up:
(hd0) (hd0,msdos4) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos2,msdos5) (hd0,msdos2,msdos1) (hd0,msdos2,msdos1)
When I type "set" it says:
prefix=(hd0,msdos5)/boot/grub
root=hd0,msdos5
I'm assuming this information is important and I have to set the prefix to something in order for something else to work.
Can anyone tell me what to do from here? I'd love to get Ubuntu back.
Once again, just to be clear:
I have no CD-Rom drive so I can't load or boot anything from there.
I don't have, and never had, any sort of recovery discs anyway.
I cannot boot from the USB flash drive, even though the computer's settings say that's the preferred source.
Can anyone help?
:confused:
Thank you very much for your time in reading this.