Cannot install grub due to “cannot stat `aufs'” error

Question

i have installed these OSs in the order give below
*Windows7
*Ubuntu 11.04
*Fedora 15

Before installation of Fedora 15 all was working fine. Ubuntu grub shows Windows and Ubuntu in the list. When Fedora 15 is installed Ubuntu's grub was lost. I am trying to restore Ubuntu grub from Ubuntu live usb drive.So that the fedora will chainload ubuntu grub.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/media/926afad4-4c2a-4f0f-8b2c->801e07c9ec26/boot /dev/sda2
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `aufs'.

Please help ?

Answer 1

The problem might be here:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/media/926afad4-4c2a-4f0f-8b2c- >801e07c9ec26/boot /dev/sda2

The /dev/sda2, which is the second partition (the 2) on your first hard drive (the a), should just be /dev/sda, which refers to just to the hard drive as a whole.

When the computer starts, the BIOS will determine which device to boot from (based on your boot order settings). Should it be your first hard drive (/dev/sda), then the computer will look for a bootloader installed at the very beginning of the Master Boot Record (MBR), the first sector of the HDD. You're trying to install grub probably somewhere deep in the hard drive.

|--|---------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
^  ^                                       ^
|  |__ Start of 1st partition /dev/sda1    |__Start of 2nd partition /dev/sda2
|                                             where you're trying to install 
|                                             grub
|
|__Start of hard drive, the MBR starts here, the bootloader should live in 
   here, the partition tables as well, all before the first partition.

TL;DR change /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda

Answer 2

Two things.

1

• Unmount the drive before attempting to install grub.

2

• Use sudo fdisk -l to find your drive.
• Then use sudo grub-install /dev/<partitionhere>.

Answer 3

You can try this to: Just download and install "Boot repair" http://mygeekopinions.blogspot.com/2011/06/install-boot-repair-in-ubuntu-1104.html . Just like that. I did it and it works.