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kenny99

June 9th, 2011, 03:00 PM

As the title suggests, I've just installed 11.04 on a new machine, to be dual booted with Windows 7. The installation process completed, popped the disc back out, but when booting up I get no boot menu and just load Windows 7. I don't get any error messages or any sort of feedback.

If i go into BIOS, I only have Windows 7 as a bootable option.

Can anyone help? I presumed grub or an equivalent would be installed as part of the installation.

Quackers

June 9th, 2011, 03:03 PM

Grub is installed by default to the mbr of /dev/sda (the first hard drive). If that is the hard drive you are booting from it seems that did not happen, for some reason.
Please boot from the Ubuntu Live cd/usb and select "try ubuntu" then when the desktop is loaded make sure you have an internet connection and go to the site below and download the boot script. This will give you a zip file which should be extracted in the same directory as it was downloaded. This produces a folder which contains the script and a changelog file.
You then need to cd to that directory in the terminal (for example
cd Downloads/boot_info_script060 if you downloaded it to your Downloads folder). You don't need to do that if you downloaded it to your home folder.
Then enter

sudo bash boot_info_script.sh

This will produce a results.txt file in the same directory as the downloaded boot script. Please copy the contents of that file and paste them in your next post between CODE tags. For CODE tags click on New Reply (not quick reply)and then click on the # symbol in the toolbar.
This will give a full overview of your current system.
Thanks.

http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/

kenny99

June 9th, 2011, 03:17 PM

Hi Quackers. I tried to boot from the live CD, but got a "General error mounting filesystems" message, and am currently in a maintenance shell. I tried to run lshw, but got "cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory". Any thing i should check here?

Quackers

June 9th, 2011, 03:23 PM

Did you change your bios settings to boot from cd/usb first?

kenny99

June 9th, 2011, 03:34 PM

I didn't change anything in BIOS. Initially, I got the error I mentioned in the previous post, this time i got the Ubuntu loading screen for a couple of minutes before eventually getting a message that there was a problem during installation and that the desktop will be loaded in order to troubleshoot the issue. So I'm at the desktop now. Seems like more than just a grub/boot issue now, do you think?

Quackers

June 9th, 2011, 03:38 PM

Unless your bios is already set to boot from cd or USB first, your system will try to boot from the hard drive. Maybe it is set that way.
So are you now in the Ubuntu live desktop? Connected to the internet? If so please follow what's in post #2

kenny99

June 9th, 2011, 03:46 PM

No problem, results.txt contents below. Thanks for the help so far

Boot Info Script 0.60 from 17 May 2011

============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================

=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.

sda1: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99)
Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda1
and looks at sector 707276264 of the same hard drive
for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for (,msdos5)/boot/grub on this drive. No errors found
in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:

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: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe

sda3: __________________________________________________ ________________________

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

sda5: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 11.04
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img

sda6: __________________________________________________ ________________________

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

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

Drive: sda __________________________________________________ ___________________

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System

/dev/sda1 2,048 24,578,047 24,576,000 27 Hidden NTFS (Recovery Environment)
/dev/sda2 * 24,578,048 249,813,508 225,235,461 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda3 249,815,038 976,771,071 726,956,034 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 249,815,040 968,912,895 719,097,856 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 968,914,944 976,771,071 7,856,128 82 Linux swap / Solaris

"blkid" output: __________________________________________________ ______________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/sda1 CC64F01464F0034E ntfs Win_RE
/dev/sda2 0EA8EF46A8EF2AC3 ntfs Windows7
/dev/sda5 5848d63a-f3a0-433b-8245-a9e43fefc13c ext4
/dev/sda6 66fdd4bc-a1a5-47ba-8ce1-0db0d708eca4 swap

================================ Mount points: =================================

Device Mount_Point Type Options

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

=========================== sda5/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
set have_grubenv=true
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
}

function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
if [ -n "${have_grubenv}" ]; then if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
}

function load_video {
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
}

insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5848d63a-f3a0-433b-8245-a9e43fefc13c
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=auto
load_video
insmod gfxterm
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5848d63a-f3a0-433b-8245-a9e43fefc13c
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en_GB
insmod gettext
if [ "${recordfail}" = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
if background_color 44,0,30; then
clear
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
if [ ${recordfail} != 1 ]; then
if [ -e ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt ]; then
if hwmatch ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt 3; then
if [ ${match} = 0 ]; then
set linux_gfx_mode=keep
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=keep
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
export linux_gfx_mode
if [ "$linux_gfx_mode" != "text" ]; then load_video; fi
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-8-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5848d63a-f3a0-433b-8245-a9e43fefc13c
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=5848d63a-f3a0-433b-8245-a9e43fefc13c ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-8-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5848d63a-f3a0-433b-8245-a9e43fefc13c
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.38-8-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=5848d63a-f3a0-433b-8245-a9e43fefc13c ro single
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5848d63a-f3a0-433b-8245-a9e43fefc13c
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5848d63a-f3a0-433b-8245-a9e43fefc13c
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" --class windows --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos2)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 0EA8EF46A8EF2AC3
chainloader +1
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=============================== sda5/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/sda5 during installation
UUID=5848d63a-f3a0-433b-8245-a9e43fefc13c / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=66fdd4bc-a1a5-47ba-8ce1-0db0d708eca4 none swap sw 0 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=================== sda5: Location of files loaded by Grub: ====================

GiB - GB File Fragment(s)

337.255630493 = 362.125475840 boot/grub/core.img 1
335.258159637 = 359.980707840 boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
120.548328400 = 129.437782016 boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic 2
337.253910065 = 362.123628544 boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic 1
120.548328400 = 129.437782016 initrd.img 2
337.253910065 = 362.123628544 vmlinuz 1

======================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc: ========================

Unknown BootLoader on sda3

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00000010 55 1c 26 f3 1a 7b 42 56 bb 52 a4 32 4e 9a 9f cf |U.&..{BV.R.2N...|
00000020 74 31 c0 06 01 12 f1 00 e5 b8 b8 8b 28 6b c5 ae |t1..........(k..|
00000030 f6 44 aa b6 13 36 6e 04 28 c9 f3 f0 1f 74 77 04 |.D...6n.(....tw.|
00000040 67 52 39 22 57 50 80 16 25 c2 af 4d f4 c4 f5 00 |gR9"WP..%..M....|
00000050 14 01 32 f0 80 83 59 41 e4 d1 2c 29 98 23 eb c4 |..2...YA..,).#..|
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000001b0 5f c3 76 2f a3 65 56 0f c8 79 2d 7e 2a 41 00 fe |_.v/.eV..y-~*A..|
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000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|
00000200

=============================== StdErr Messages: ===============================

unlzma: Decoder error

Quackers

June 9th, 2011, 03:54 PM

It appears that you have installed grub to sda1 rather than to sda. This is the problem. sda1 appears to be a recovery partition and this is unlikely to boot from grub now. It may still boot from its key press at boot though (but not sure about that).
To install grub to the proper place you should open up a terminal and run these commands, one at a time, pressing enter after each line.

sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda This should report no errors. If that is the case reboot, taking out the live cd/usb and Ubuntu should boot directly.
If it does, open a terminal and run
sudo update-grub when you should see the Windows Loader picked up as grub.cfg is configured. If so, reboot and you should get the grub menu giving you a choice of which system to boot.

kenny99

June 9th, 2011, 04:07 PM

Ah you are indeed a legend sir. All looks good now, many many thanks :)

Quackers

June 9th, 2011, 04:12 PM

No sir, the work was done by drs305! I just refer everyone to it :-)
Glad it worked.
You're welcome.
Please mark the thread as solved using the Thread Tools near the top of the page.

shahajil

July 2nd, 2011, 08:17 PM

Boot Info Script 0.60 from 17 May 2011

============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================

=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.

sda1: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99)
Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda1
and looks at sector 570110584 of the same hard drive
for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for (,msdos5)/boot/grub on this drive. No errors found
in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:

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: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe

sda3: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /BOOTMGR /BOOT/BCD

sda4: __________________________________________________ ________________________

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

sda5: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 11.04
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img

sda6: __________________________________________________ ________________________

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 Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System

/dev/sda1 2,048 3,074,047 3,072,000 27 Hidden NTFS (Recovery Environment)
/dev/sda2 * 3,074,048 464,927,230 461,853,183 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda3 606,904,320 625,141,759 18,237,440 17 Hidden NTFS / HPFS
/dev/sda4 464,928,766 606,904,319 141,975,554 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 464,928,768 598,851,583 133,922,816 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 598,853,632 606,904,319 8,050,688 82 Linux swap / Solaris

"blkid" output: __________________________________________________ ______________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/sda1 94D0C3EBD0C3D1A2 ntfs TOSHIBA SYSTEM VOLUME
/dev/sda2 CC822286822274DC ntfs
/dev/sda3 8C6CCC1C6CCC0346 ntfs HDDRECOVERY
/dev/sda5 7eb63769-eff6-4ee9-9627-85ae5e3ae1e8 ext4
/dev/sda6 c3d5b21c-1932-4c29-a51f-7777d97ca93b swap

================================ Mount points: =================================

Device Mount_Point Type Options

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

=========================== sda5/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
set have_grubenv=true
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
}

function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
if [ -n "${have_grubenv}" ]; then if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
}

function load_video {
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
}

insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 7eb63769-eff6-4ee9-9627-85ae5e3ae1e8
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=auto
load_video
insmod gfxterm
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 7eb63769-eff6-4ee9-9627-85ae5e3ae1e8
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en_US
insmod gettext
if [ "${recordfail}" = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
if background_color 44,0,30; then
clear
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
if [ ${recordfail} != 1 ]; then
if [ -e ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt ]; then
if hwmatch ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt 3; then
if [ ${match} = 0 ]; then
set linux_gfx_mode=keep
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=keep
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
export linux_gfx_mode
if [ "$linux_gfx_mode" != "text" ]; then load_video; fi
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-8-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 7eb63769-eff6-4ee9-9627-85ae5e3ae1e8
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=7eb63769-eff6-4ee9-9627-85ae5e3ae1e8 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-8-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 7eb63769-eff6-4ee9-9627-85ae5e3ae1e8
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.38-8-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=7eb63769-eff6-4ee9-9627-85ae5e3ae1e8 ro single
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 7eb63769-eff6-4ee9-9627-85ae5e3ae1e8
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 7eb63769-eff6-4ee9-9627-85ae5e3ae1e8
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" --class windows --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos2)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root CC822286822274DC
chainloader +1
}
menuentry "Windows Recovery Environment (loader) (on /dev/sda3)" --class windows --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 8C6CCC1C6CCC0346
drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
chainloader +1
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
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=============================== sda5/etc/fstab: ================================

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# /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/sda5 during installation
UUID=7eb63769-eff6-4ee9-9627-85ae5e3ae1e8 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=c3d5b21c-1932-4c29-a51f-7777d97ca93b none swap sw 0 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=================== sda5: Location of files loaded by Grub: ====================

GiB - GB File Fragment(s)

271.849937439 = 291.896647680 boot/grub/core.img 1
237.834377289 = 255.372718080 boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
222.148437500 = 238.530068480 boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic 2
271.848224640 = 291.894808576 boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic 1
222.148437500 = 238.530068480 initrd.img 2
271.848224640 = 291.894808576 vmlinuz 1

======================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc: ========================

Unknown BootLoader on sda4

00000000 f8 36 78 cf 87 76 b8 a1 68 fc 36 37 6f df 86 ec |.6x..v..h.67o...|
00000010 ff ad 62 1f e8 27 9b 75 88 17 55 78 26 8c b4 eb |..b..'.u..Ux&...|
00000020 ca 8e d1 9e 8c e5 31 89 7b a4 fe eb 63 c1 a7 cd |......1.{...c...|
00000030 e3 07 b2 a5 f8 92 bd 32 de 81 f4 1d f8 2f f1 01 |.......2...../..|
00000040 f5 ac 2d ad c2 39 d9 cd cb dd 96 c4 26 2e ba 3f |..-..9......&..?|
00000050 6a 9a 27 ec 8c 1a 51 2d a7 1d ca 5a a5 cf 6e 8b |j.'...Q-...Z..n.|
00000060 94 48 bd 23 5d 00 5d 4d 95 dd 03 f9 84 9a 66 7b |.H.#].]M......f{|
00000070 dd d3 ca 56 74 d0 07 7f 80 2c b5 0e 10 dc 40 b2 |...Vt....,....@.|
00000080 85 8c fe 7d 6b e5 7f 05 52 75 62 f5 44 01 59 a2 |...}k...Rub.D.Y.|
00000090 5f 0f 31 b7 1c ef d4 14 24 b0 64 af 4d 9e cc d9 |_.1.....$.d.M...|
000000a0 3b 05 aa 71 50 e7 29 c3 63 5d 7a c0 31 b4 59 ba |;..qP.).c]z.1.Y.|
000000b0 9d 9d 2d e2 c8 55 fe 14 a6 e8 19 f8 a1 ff 5f 01 |..-..U........_.|
000000c0 61 0a 8f ff a9 34 05 ab a5 2a 7b 66 5b b1 78 59 |a....4...*{f[.xY|
000000d0 fe 17 37 fc 36 b5 85 34 39 f0 4a 12 64 fe 0d eb |..7.6..49.J.d...|
000000e0 b7 24 3e 73 f4 71 99 74 86 7d 48 c1 79 4f e0 3f |.$>s.q.t.}H.yO.?|
000000f0 11 1e 0b 4c e7 60 d8 94 06 5e 97 11 ae a8 55 ee |...L.`...^....U.|
00000100 03 32 07 b5 32 cf d1 5e a8 60 b4 81 55 8a dc 59 |.2..2..^.`..U..Y|
00000110 00 00 54 fd 30 b0 88 b9 45 e0 12 c9 ab 60 f2 76 |..T.0...E....`.v|
00000120 a1 22 f5 8c 56 20 4d 28 a9 8e 92 1e 0b 7a 1a c2 |."..V M(.....z..|
00000130 cb 9d 8a f3 18 fd 53 d0 b8 2f 13 b6 5b fe ec 51 |......S../..[..Q|
00000140 6a 49 d1 e2 74 8a f4 4c d5 2a 0b 4c 80 dd 8d 5f |jI..t..L.*.L..._|
00000150 e1 56 e0 5a 42 72 a5 a0 3f cf 9a bf 9a c7 62 ea |.V.ZBr..?.....b.|
00000160 c2 27 d6 90 73 21 d9 55 03 1e a0 e0 cc 3f c2 69 |.'..s!.U.....?.i|
00000170 ea 20 ed 5f d4 17 f2 34 51 d4 13 b0 61 11 55 26 |. ._...4Q...a.U&|
00000180 f7 3a 43 b6 f3 aa 3e 1d eb 0e 70 5c 2a a8 e4 15 |.:C...>...p\*...|
00000190 e5 26 f2 cd 28 b7 51 de 7c 2f f2 83 dd 83 24 72 |.&..(.Q.|/....$r|
000001a0 63 d2 2f ec c3 e6 79 07 fe 0f 14 4e 3e cd a9 00 |c./...y....N>...|
000001b0 9a 26 60 5b 1e 9a 86 69 70 fd 57 fc e2 29 00 fe |.&`[...ip.W..)..|
000001c0 ff ff 83 fe ff ff 02 00 00 00 00 80 fb 07 00 fe |................|
000001d0 ff ff 05 fe ff ff 02 80 fb 07 00 e0 7a 00 00 00 |............z...|
000001e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|
00000200

=============================== StdErr Messages: ===============================

unlzma: Decoder error

pls help me with this .. i have the same problem ...thank u in advance .. m a new user of ubuntu

shahajil

July 2nd, 2011, 08:19 PM

pls help me .. i have the same problem .. i have posted result file. pls tell me wat shu d do . m a new user of ubuntu .. :)

Quackers

July 2nd, 2011, 09:41 PM

Grub has been installed to sda1 whereas it should have been installed to the mbr of the hard drive (sda).
If you boot from the Ubuntu live cd/usb and select "try Ubuntu" then open up a terminal you can copy/paste these two commands into the terminal, one line at a time, pressing enter after each line.

sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda Which should report "Finished. No errors".
If it does you can reboot and you should then see Ubuntu boot directly. If it does, open up a terminal in your new Ubuntu system and run
sudo update-grub and you should see the Windows Loader picked up as grub.cfg is run.
If you do, reboot and you should see a grub menu which will give you the choice of which operating system to boot.

If sda1 is a recovery partition, it may not work now because grub has been installed there.
If you can make a set of recovery dvd's from within Windows I would recommend that you do so - if you haven't done that already.