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I tried to upgrade from 12.04 -> 12.10. The install seemed to go well but upon reboot, I get the grub recovery console.

I tried to reinstall using the boot-repair Boot Repair

which usually works a treat. However this time it says it is scanning my HDD and never recovers.

When I try to reinstall grub from the liveDVD using the old

    grub-install <dir> <dev> --recheck --debug &> gruboutput.txt

I get this

Pastebin link

I think it should be installing to dev/mapper/isw_gbaaebhfe_Volume0 even when I made --> dev/mapper/isw_gbaaebhfe_Volume3

Any help would be appreciated

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  • Please run Boot-Repair --> Recommended Repair , then indicate the new URL that will appear. Reboot and tell us what you observe.
    – LovinBuntu
    Oct 29, 2012 at 8:10
  • It doesn't get that far. When it starts it says its scanning my hardware and doesn't ever get any further.
    – Caustic
    Oct 29, 2012 at 13:10

3 Answers 3

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Create Boot-Repair-Disk would be better option. You can download it here.

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  • okay I'll give that a try when I get home. Thanks
    – Caustic
    Oct 24, 2012 at 6:00
  • It will 100% work.
    – KK Patel
    Oct 24, 2012 at 6:07
  • It did not work. It doesn't have raid drivers.
    – Caustic
    Oct 30, 2012 at 3:03
  • Sorry I don't understand. How do I do that?
    – Caustic
    Oct 30, 2012 at 5:40
  • check out this askubuntu.com/questions/43036/… for raid
    – KK Patel
    Oct 30, 2012 at 5:48
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IF you fail to see the Grub:- Insert a Ubuntu 12.10 Live-CD/DVD and run the following commands:

$sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt # XY is the drive, eg. sda or sda1

$sudo chroot /mnt

$sudo grub-install /dev/sdX #X is drive number

$sudo update-grub # Note that you just need to enter the 'drive' identifier here, not the partition!

Reboot and take out the LiveDVD. Lemme know if it doesn't work as intended.

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  • This is not working in Ubuntu 12.10.
    – KK Patel
    Oct 24, 2012 at 4:36
  • In that case, he'd have to use a Boot Repair Disk.
    – TomKat
    Oct 24, 2012 at 4:43
  • I didn't explicitly say so in my question - I have now edited - but this is what I did using the liveDVD. @K.K Patel. is this a known bug?
    – Caustic
    Oct 24, 2012 at 5:59
  • Yes, it is Bug with Grub but not more known.
    – KK Patel
    Oct 24, 2012 at 6:05
  • One tip that just 'might' work: Most OSes are known to be problematic with a specific system. Try installing on you HDD y connecting it to another machine. For eg, my laptop always fails to install FreeBSD (so does all my friends' who use same system). But, it works fine when I install it on my HDD by plugging it into my desktop! Try it.
    – TomKat
    Oct 24, 2012 at 6:14
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you can also have ultimate boot cd on hand run super grub it will allow you to boot the os then run sudo update-grub from the os

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