Grub "no module name found" after reboot

[LucasG]

So I have Windows 7 installed in my machine. I went ahead and installed ubuntu server on another partition. After the installation I was able to either boot to Windows 7 or Ubuntu server through GRUB. But after shutting down my pc, and this morning turning it on, it gave:

Booting from lcoal disk...
GRUB loading.
no module name found
Aborted. Press any key to exit.

And GRUB won't give any options or anything, like if GRUB got corrupted and now I cannot get into any of my OS's.

Any ideas?

[some-what-Gnu-2-networks]

Get GAG Bootloader. You can probably best get it from the SystemRescueCD. Install that as your bootloader instead of GRUB.

[namok]

@LucasG download Super Grub Disk, burn cd, boot with it and you should be able to start Ubuntu. Then you should go back to the grub legacy, and then apply the method described here: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/WindowsErasesGrub.

[semacore]

Have the same issue

I get this...

no module name found
Aborted. Press any key to exit.
Intel(R) Boot Agent GE v1.3.35
Copyright (C) 1997-2009, Intel Corporation

PXE-E61 : Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F : Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
Operating System not found


I did find this as a solution but it seems to be a temporary solution at best:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Gr...0from%20LiveCD

Is there a solution other than wiping the drive?

[ONEother]

Same problem -- every time that Windows 7 starts up/shuts down (I can't figure out which) it manages to override the MBR to create this result. No Windows 7 loader, no GRUB loader.
The only option I've come up with is booting from the Ubuntu live cd and reinstalling grub on the MBR. This is a rather lengthy and tedious thing to do every time I want to turn the computer on, windows 7 or ubuntu. So then I have to decide whether to use Ubuntu exclusively (not likely), use Windows 7 exclusively AND leave it on at all times, or reinstall grub every time I shutdown windows 7.
Curiously, after this proccess, the boot file for bcdedit (in windows 7) no longer exists and the only resolution to this situation is to use the windows recovery/installation disc to rebuild it.
There's gotta be something easier! What is windows doing that could make grub stop working, or override the MBR on startup/shutdown?

[verifiedbuy]

I think you have to format your hard disk ones.

[ONEother]

So in other words, I need to reformat the entire hard drive?
As far as formatting goes, on first install of Ubuntu I did the half&half (or so) and made Windows the smaller partition. Since then I have reformatted the new (Ubuntu, ext4 & swap) partitions several times over. The current system is /dev/sda1 is Dell Utility 41MB FAT16, /dev/sda2 is windows recovery 16GB NTFS, /dev/sda3 is windows 7 126GB NTFS, /dev/sda4 extended partition (sda5 and 6), /dev/sda5 (ubuntu) and /dev/sda6 (swap) are under an extended partition, would that be causing a boot problem?
/dev/sda5 is formatted as ext4 with the extent disabled and the inode size at 128 (not sure what it means, but I was trying to get Windows to read the hard drive as per these instructions.
EDIT: Also, is it advisable/required to have a boot partition on Ubuntu?

[ONEother]

Okay, one more question concerning this. Since the Dell Utility (diagnostic tool) is the first partition and windows 7 is the second, what does the BIOS try to boot if there is no Ubuntu boot partition? Or is it grub that's having the trouble? Note again the error message "no module name found" and after you "press any key to exit" it displays the chipset and "no operating system found".

[snijkerm]

Same problem for me. Just installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a Dell laptop preinstalled Win7. Each time Win7 has started up no booting possible anymore. Unless you reinstall grub. Which is not workable obviously. Any suggestion on how to make it work would be extremely welcome.

Someone suggested to configure bootloader inside Windows? I have no idea how to do that??

Working with Ubuntu for more than 4 years nicely next to WinXP. Never had any issues. This thing is a real showstopper. What is Windows doing? First time startup I had a diskcheck inside windows. Subsequent times no check but always this problem of not being able to restart afterwards.

Is it a Win7/Dell (Studio7) issue only?

Thanks,
Marcel

[aoszkar]

Same here. New Dell laptop with Windows 7. I installed Kubuntu 10.04 LTS, and it worked fine for a few days, then I suddenly got the "no module found" error followed by the "Operating System not found" message.

It seems you have to reinstall GRUB with the Live CD (see http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubunt...-wipes-it-out/).

But I still haven't found a way to make this permanent
Any ideas? Is Windows 7 really this intrusive?