Had you tried to boot from the Windows drive, before you did "fixboot"? With what result?
Had you tried to boot from the Windows drive, before you did "fixboot"? With what result?
ok, well i tryed to boot into windows from the windows HDD,Code:Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x29ef16c9 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 9327 74919096 83 Linux /dev/sda2 9328 9729 3229065 5 Extended /dev/sda5 9328 9729 3229033+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc467c467 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 24321 195358401 7 HPFS/NTFS
it still came up with grub, but it wouldnt boot anything...
so i tried your idea, i ran fixboot and it was ok,
but stilll no windows,
so i tried fixmbr and then everything buggered up...
how do i use the testdisk thing?
ijust tried the fix grub thing in ur siggy,
now it will load grub up when i boot but when i select bunty it just stays at the splash screen with the bar bouncing from left to right...
fdisk looks normal and grub seems to be working.
testdisk is a little tricky. But since your partition table seems to be o.k, lets run a file system check first: (make sure your ubuntu partition is unmounted for this)
Code:sudo e2fsck -C0 -pv /dev/sda1
not sure what the means...Code:/dev/sda1: clean, 169160/4685824 files, 1494114/18729774 blocks
That means that e2fsck thinks your partition is just fine, and does not even bother to check it. But that isn't always true. Try
(the f "forces" a file check, you can use "man e2fsck to figure out what the letters mean)sudo e2fsck -C0 -pfv /dev/sda1
Code:169160 inodes used (3.61%) 1226 non-contiguous inodes (0.7%) # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 8651/142/0 1494114 blocks used (7.98%) 0 bad blocks 1 large file 132145 regular files 17692 directories 69 character device files 26 block device files 3 fifos 102 links 19209 symbolic links (18084 fast symbolic links) 7 sockets -------- 169253 files
File systems seems to be ok. Partition table looks fine.
Lets try to remove the splash screen during boot-up. Then you might get some useful error messages:
(Please report any errors)Code:sudo mkdir /ubuntu sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /ubuntu gksudo gedit /ubuntu/boot/grub/menu.lst
Look for the first appearance of
title ubuntu......
root (hd0,0)
kernel ..... splash quiet ....
intitrd
remove splash and quiet
Save the file.
If this failed for some reason, you can also remove "splash quiet" at the Grub menu during boot up:
Select ubuntu, do not press "enter", but press "e" to "edit". At the new screen select the second line and press "e" again. Make the changes. Press "enter" and then "b" to boot.
Last edited by meierfra.; June 1st, 2008 at 05:35 AM. Reason: left out a line of code
ok, well the last line it says for ages is this:
then after a while it comes up with this:Code:[ 111.051524] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:UB HID core driver
then it has something about a BusyBox v1.1.3Code:Check root=bootarg cat /proc/cmdline or missing modules, devices: cat/proc/modules is /dev Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/cfc2919b-4747-4d12-a7cb-3ca261630bc0 does not exist. dropping to a shell!
im not sure what any of this means,
and some spelling could be off since i had to wright it all down then re-type it...
Did "gksudo gedit /ubuntu/boot/grub/menu.lst" work ?
Try this:
This will give you the "UUID" for /dev/sda1. If it is different fromCode:sudo blkid /dev/sda1
"UUID=cfc2919b-4747-4d12-a7cb-3ca261630bc0 "
then replace all "UUID=cfc2919b-4747-4d12-a7cb-3ca261630bc0" in "/ubuntu/boot/grub/menu.lst" and in "/ubuntu/etc/fstab" by "/dev/sda1"
So for example
"root=UUID=cfc2919b-4747-4d12-a7cb-3ca261630bc0 "
needs to replaced by
"root=/dev/sda1"
To edit the files:
Code:sudo mkdir /ubuntu sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /ubuntu sudo gedit /ubuntu/boot/grub/menu.lst sudo gedit /ubuntu/etc/fstab
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