My battery died, and now Ubuntu won't start

Question

I was working on Ubuntu 10.04, then the battery died. I plugged in the charger, and now Ubuntu won't start. It keeps showing an error screen similar to the following:

Except that the grub version is GNU GRUB version 1.98-1ubuntu12 and the background is black, because I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.

Answer 1

Boot with a Live CD, and check your Ubuntu partition with Gparted.

To do this:

• Right-click your Ubuntu partiton, and click Unmount, if the partition is mounted
• Right-click your Ubuntu partiton, and click Check
• Click on the green checkmark button ("Apply All Operations")

This will check for and fix any filesystem errors on your Ubuntu partition.

If the previous steps didn't work, then refer to this post for easy instructions on how to reinstall Grub.