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GRUB already has an entry for grub-rescue (with the parameter single instead of quiet and splash) but it does the same thing..
All i get is a busybox prompt.

Same thing.

Tried lsof/fsck/mount. the same thing

Tried the command promt of GRUB but there's no fsck.

Exactly the same thing as before:


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck -fC /dev/sda1
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
fsck.ext4: Device or resource busy while trying to open...

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lsof /dev/sda1
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() tmpfs file system /cow
Output information may be incomplete.
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system...

After a restart yesterday, my computer doesn't boot correctly...
After GRUB, it prints

mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys...

Does anyone have some insight to my problem(s)??:p

Thanx! It still wouldn't save the file but now it shoed me a preview and i saved it mannually.

1. Two monitors[solved]
I have the nVidia driver ver.185 installed but the X Server Settings program can't save the X configuration file. I can apply the settings for the second screen just fine,...

If you want to change the folder bookmarks that appear on the places tab in the main menu, all you have to do is open nautilus(the file browser) by selecting the home directory or the computer option...

Tried the & at the end of the command. It still errors, but the panel is working.I don't like this solution though, feels very temporary...
Anyway, thanks for the help:):)

@MelDJ Nope.Didn't work either... I don't think the problem is running the panel from terminal, i think that when the terminal runs for some reason it crashes.

@nandemonai didn't work.

I also...

Yeah, i did the terminal thing and it worked.Thank you.
I'm going to do a restart and see if it happens again..

EDIT: turns out it didn't work. "gnome-panel" doesn't finish...This is the output:...

How can I do that???

I'm using 9.04 for a week now. Everything's running ok. The last couple of days i didn't turn off the PC.
So I did a restart half an hour ago, and when I came back all I could see was the desktop...

Guys, thank you all for your help. Problem is solved!!!

Hereis the guide that i used. It's from the same guys that made tha utility for configuring Vista's bootloader.
Turns out the Vista Install...

tried makeactive, nothing different srry:-?
Anyway, thank you both guys at least i learned some things about linux..

OK, i think GRUB isn't the problem.
Vista is there as an option but after pressing enter the system doesn't boot. It says Ntldr is missing.
I think that when i installed Vista some files needed...

I changed the flag to Vista, when i installed gparted and when i saw that only one partition could have the boot flag i asked here.

I added the entry to menu.lst

@Jakey_TheSnake stage1 gives...

OK, heres is the full results from the hard disk.

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk...

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x56f056f0


I have a second SATA disk...

I have a 500GB hard disk, divided in 2 250GB partitions. I was dual-booting WinXP and Vista with Windows Vista's default bootloader... I installed Ubuntu 8.10 x86 (the CD version) over Windows XP...