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I had 12.04 with my dual boot system. Yesterday I downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 make bootable USB and choose Upgrade option in Installer. After installation Grub failed to boot my machine. I tried following to fix grub bootloder . Same problem I fixed with Ubuntu 12.04 using live USB but this solution not work for Ubuntu 12.10. Now coming at exactly where this solution goes fail.

I followed this steps after booting Live USB and opening terminal.

1) sudo fdisk -l to see where Linux is installed

2) sudo mount /dev/sda9 /mnt where sda9 is my linux partition

3) sudo mount /dev/sda9 /mnt/boot

4) sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev

5) sudo chroot /mnt (No problems with this steps done perfectly)

6) grub-install /dev/sda when I type command I got error that

source_dir doesn't exist Please specify --target or --directory

How can I solve this?

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  • Did you try the Boot-Repair ?
    – NickTux
    Oct 20, 2012 at 4:54
  • Oh , just answered to your question.. hah. Can you provide the link with boot-info ?
    – NickTux
    Oct 20, 2012 at 4:57
  • I worked with terminal so didn't get screenshot.
    – KK Patel
    Oct 20, 2012 at 5:01
  • Boot-Repair is not a CLI program is a GUI program. Are sure you ran it ? Boot again from LiveCD-USB and run again boot-repair. It will create a boot-info link with useful informations. Edit your question and add this link.
    – NickTux
    Oct 20, 2012 at 5:06
  • I want to repair with just with Live USB. In 12.04 I had fixed problem with this but problem occurs with 12.10 Only
    – KK Patel
    Oct 20, 2012 at 5:08

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For general boot problems (even specific problems UEFI - GPT) with grub-boot-loader you can use the Boot-Repair program from a LiveCD-USB of Ubuntu.

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Boot repair disk is the best solution in boot problems, I ever found.

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