patghosh
April 11th, 2013, 03:43 PM
Hi All
Please pardon my level of (in)competence in all matters Ubuntu.
I am facing a sequence of problems, which for clarity's sake I shall put down in the chronological order.
I had a dual boot set up with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7. Suddenly I couldn't log in to Windows 7. It showed the option in grub (still does), but selecting it just changed the screen color for a few seconds and grub menu just reappeared.
I saw posts mentioning purging the grub, and tried doing it but it seems that after purging grub didn't reinstall and I was logged out with Grub Rescue screen.
Going through the forums, I came across the post on boot repair. I downloaded 'secure', created a usb from the iso file and tried boot repair but that didn't work.
I thought going for the upgrade to 12.10 might solve the problem but my usb stopped midway creating some sort of an unholy mess because even though I can see my grub menu it just mentions ubuntu (and not the usual long line containing words like pae, generic ). Prior to this ubuntu secure detected 12.04 and gave the option for upgrading.
Now it just says mutliple OS are present with options like installing alongside and deleting disk for installation.
I would obviously like to go back to yesterday (both OS working with my data), that would be sort of my goal but I am not sure how to go about getting out of this mess.
Please pardon my level of (in)competence in all matters Ubuntu.
I am facing a sequence of problems, which for clarity's sake I shall put down in the chronological order.
I had a dual boot set up with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7. Suddenly I couldn't log in to Windows 7. It showed the option in grub (still does), but selecting it just changed the screen color for a few seconds and grub menu just reappeared.
I saw posts mentioning purging the grub, and tried doing it but it seems that after purging grub didn't reinstall and I was logged out with Grub Rescue screen.
Going through the forums, I came across the post on boot repair. I downloaded 'secure', created a usb from the iso file and tried boot repair but that didn't work.
I thought going for the upgrade to 12.10 might solve the problem but my usb stopped midway creating some sort of an unholy mess because even though I can see my grub menu it just mentions ubuntu (and not the usual long line containing words like pae, generic ). Prior to this ubuntu secure detected 12.04 and gave the option for upgrading.
Now it just says mutliple OS are present with options like installing alongside and deleting disk for installation.
I would obviously like to go back to yesterday (both OS working with my data), that would be sort of my goal but I am not sure how to go about getting out of this mess.