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After today's update Nov. 22, 2011 Ubuntu option disappear from grub 11.10 on my dual partition.

some of fdisk -l:

Device Boot      System
/dev/sda1   *    HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2        Extended
/dev/sda5        Linux
/dev/sda6        Linux swap / Solaris

Device Boot    ID System
/dev/sdb1   *  c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

I also ran this: 

 grub-probe -t device /boot/grub

to see where the grub was got this error:

 grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is /dev mounted?).

did this too:

 sudo update-grub

got the same error: /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?).

I also tried to boot repair Gui but it only shows MBR option and no grub. when I turn the computer on I get:

No such file:
grub rescue>

Any help would be much appreciated.

Edit: I also mounted the linux partition:

  sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
  mount: /dev/sda5 already mounted or /mnt busy
  mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda5 is already mounted on /mnt

and ran the above commands and got the same errors as above.

Also did as tohuwawohu instructed:

umount /mnt
sudo fsck -p /dev/sda5
fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
/dev/sda5: clean,

Thanks again. Any Help would be awesome.

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  • I'm on a live Ubuntu 11.10 I did these commands via the terminal except ofcourse for the grub rescue> error which was on the actual computer which I got after using the Boot repair tool with live Ubuntu because the only option was restore MBR.
    – st2011
    Nov 22, 2011 at 9:52
  • Hmm - maybe a file system issue? Did you run a file system check? Have you tried to proceed booting "manually" from the rescue prompt?
    – tohuwawohu
    Nov 22, 2011 at 10:03
  • To check the file system, unmount the partition (# umount /mnt) and start the check using # fsck -v /dev/sda5. Option -v gives verbose output. To automatically repair the file system, add a -p or -a.
    – tohuwawohu
    Nov 22, 2011 at 10:21
  • Another point: If your linux partition is mounted at /mnt, its /boot/grub directory is available at /mnt/boot/grub, not /boot/grub. You wrote you ran grub-probe -t device /boot/grub.
    – tohuwawohu
    Nov 22, 2011 at 10:33
  • @tohuwawohu your right. I get /dev/sda5 but when I do sudo update-grub I still get the same error as above.
    – st2011
    Nov 22, 2011 at 10:42

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Maybe the boot repair tool will help (see also this answer). You can install it inside a live system using:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

Here's some information how to proceed in grub rescue mode.

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  • used the boot repair but that didn't have the option to fix or restore grub only restore MBR
    – st2011
    Nov 22, 2011 at 9:41

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