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zu5be
October 23rd, 2011, 07:08 AM
Hello Good people, couple of days ago, i installed Ubuntu:p 11.10 side by side of windows 7. It was working fine and just yesterday when i started my computer. windows 7 loaded directly. i restarted again and couldn't find the choosing option between windows 7 and Ubuntu. Now all the time windows 7 loads directly.

Any fix?
shadytv
October 23rd, 2011, 07:23 AM
when booting up try pressing and holding "shift" or "esc", its most likely shift this should force grub to load, any idea why its not loading?
zu5be
October 23rd, 2011, 07:31 AM
when booting up try pressing and holding "shift" or "esc", its most likely shift this should force grub to load, any idea why its not loading?

shift did help to show the boot up option but without ubuntu..
staticd
October 23rd, 2011, 07:35 AM
If no menu turns up even after pressing shift, grub( the thingy that gives you the menu for choosing between ubuntu and Windows) might have got wiped by some windows soft ware.

(If you have installed ubuntu to a separate partition)
you could try the instructions posted here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11264694. (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11264694)
your command will most probably be --boot-dir=/media/something/boot

Search around for restoring grub.
jyothishsv
October 23rd, 2011, 07:37 AM
You can try boot repair from a live cd or live usb. this helped me once to restore boot data:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
staticd
October 23rd, 2011, 07:39 AM
Have you installed ubuntu to a separate partition or is it a Wubi install?

If it is a separate partition boot from a live CD and check if the partition has the files /boot/vmlinuz-blah
Depending on that we can proceed.
shadytv
October 23rd, 2011, 07:47 AM
from a livecd can you see your Ubuntu system? if so try running sudo update-grub
zu5be
October 23rd, 2011, 08:01 AM
Have you installed ubuntu to a separate partition or is it a Wubi install?

If it is a separate partition boot from a live CD and check if the partition has the files /boot/vmlinuz-blah
Depending on that we can proceed.

Yes i have installed it on a separate partition. while checking for the file boot/vmlinuz-blah i found out, there is not Ubuntu folder! i actually hided the folder before, but now after changing the show hidden files opetion in windows, its not there... Wonder wonder:(