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File not Found Grub Rescue after install [closed]
I'm having problems with Backtrack 5 R3.
After the installation of the system on my external disk, when i restart the computer the Grub Rescue Prompt appears after File Not Found. And when I type "ls ...
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grub rescue…delete ubuntu…windows 8…purple screen [duplicate]
Okay so I noticed I am basically screwed and have been working on this for hours. I tried to dual boot my windows 8, but I am still a beginner and failed. I am at the point where I delete ubuntu, get ...
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Fixing Windows 8 after removing ubuntu
I tried installing Ubuntu (successfully) on my Windows 8 machine so i could develop in c and it worked decently for a while. I did this without wubi. However, I later got a virtual machine to run ...
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Cloning via Clonezilla gives Grub Rescue unknown Filesystem AFTER first boot
I have two external hds one 80gb 2nd 160gb. I want to clone 'disk-disk' from 80gb to 160gb. Now because source is smaller I manually partitioned my 160gb using fsck in cmd mode of Clonezilla. The ...
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No operating system will boot after attempting to install Ubuntu 13.04 alongside Windows 8 on a Lenovo T530
I've had to retry this a million times, and it's doing my head in. Please help me.
I resized my partitions from within Windows 8, and disabled everything I was supposed to, I installed 13.04 from a ...
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Need to rescue ubuntu without mess
I usually play with OS and always use dual boot (win,ubuntu). So the grub problem is more obvious, At my first usage of Ubuntu I found it very difficult to restore grub. Live CD method always ...
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kubuntu grub resue
hey i have recently played a lot with my laptop (LENOVO Z570)
first installed ubuntu and later installed windows8 this removed ubuntu, so again i installed ubuntu and updated grub
after this i lost ...
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transferring and reading hard drives
I had a server meltdown (thermal). Removed the primary and secondary (mirror image) drives and tried to insall them on another working computer with a hard drive. Adding even one of the drives to the ...
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Grub rescue fails with “Boot Repair” with error “unknown file system” [duplicate]
THE PROBLEM WAS IN FILESYSTEM, THIS IS NOT DUBLICATE TO GRUB RESCUE STANDARD TOPICS.
After laptop system crush (which was caused by hard restart), my ubuntu linux is not booting, it is showing now:
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Insmod error in grub: symbol not found:grub_realidt
I have a dual boot PC with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 and then to 13.04 and since then I have not been able to boot because the PC goes into grub rescue with the error "File ...
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Boot problem after format [closed]
I like testing things but I screwed up this time.
I had ubuntu 12.04 + win 7 installed but didn't like ubuntu so I deleted the partition.
However, I forgot to fix mbr.
Also I am unable to access ...
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Surface Pro unknown filesystem
all solutions I found depend on a live CD, but my surface won't boot into live USB and I can't figure out how to access UEFI.
Every time I start my Surface, it says
error: unknown filesystem.
grub ...
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grub customizer broken after changing grub backround image option
As you can see from the paste I have a dual boot laptop with win7 and Ubuntu 12.10.
The grub broken after messing around with background picture with grub customizer.I didn't proceed to any change ...
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GRUB “no such partition error”
I have a dual booted Windows/Linux computer.
Today when I turn it on, it says:
error: no such partition.
Grubrescue >
What do I do?
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file system error , unable to boot boot [duplicate]
I had deleted a partition using Windows 7 in my dual boot system.
Then when i restarted my pc file system error was shown on screen with grub rescue.
After some reading from Internet, I typed in the ...
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stuck in grub rescue after recovering computer with norton symantec [duplicate]
Due to some virus my computer was crashing when I open control panel in Windows.
I had Ubuntu 12.04 installed in another partition.
I did recovery to an older point which didn't have Ubuntu partition ...
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Grub Rescue Error (unknown file system)
I had Linux 12.10 on my hard drive and after much frustration trying to get certain Windows programs to work with it, I reinstalled Windows on a new hard drive (in case I wanted to go back to Linux).
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Boot repair did not fix grub rescue prompt, new install ubuntu 12.10
Total linux noob. Trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 into an 80G IDE drive. I can boot from the LiveUSB, and install Linux successfully. I shut down, remove the USB stick, and restart. The BIOS screen ...
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Grub Rescue - No such device on boot
I currently have Windows 7 - 64bit Professional on my PC. I tried to install 12.10 via USB and it worked OK, I partitioned my main C drive and restarted my PC after Ubuntu had installed.
On boot up I ...
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I am having difficulty to solve a grub problem
My laptop originally came with a windows 8(w8) already installed, but i installed the ubuntu 12.04 64bits in dual boot. To select the OS was grub 2. Yesterday i was making some test with a virtual ...
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Macbook Pro 9,2 Grub Rescue Prompt rEFIt Ubuntu 12.04
I have dual-booted Ubuntu 12.04 on my Macbook Pro 9,2 without any problems after I have managed to boot into Ubuntu. However, to do that I must use super grub disk. I have a dual boot system, so I ...
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Installed ubuntu on external hardrive, tried to boot got grub rescue?
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 onto an external hard drive after I partitioned it and everything went well. Assuming I could boot Ubuntu I rebooted the computer and I went into Windows 7, I wanted to be in ...
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Setting up Dual-boot with Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 screwed up GRUB
I recently purchased an Acer Aspire M5-581T that came with Windows 8 preloaded.
After several attempts at trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit, I finally managed to boot from a LiveUSB and install ...
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A bug in 12.04 64 bit: error: file not found grub rescue>
In my PC I had windows and Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit parallelly. I wanted to only replace Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit by Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit leaving windows untouched. I burnt the 12.04 64 bit ISO file which was ...
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What happens with Grub Rescue?
My problem is that I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 using Wubi, and since I have Windows XP I decided not to partition my hard drive. The installation went through fine, and when it finished I restarted ...
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How to get out of grub error and stop it from happening again?
I have a Windows 8 laptop. I ran Ubuntu through a live USB and installed it (secure boot doesn't let WUBI otherwise).
When I used boot repair to boot back into Windows, it worked.
I restarted to go ...
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Dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu on two SSDs with UEFI
I recently built a new system with (Asus)UEFI and two SSDs for boot drives, and an HDD for storage. I installed Windows on the first SSD through the UEFI, and it works fine, I've been using it for a ...
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grub broken and wont boot
i had ubuntu 12.10 running allongside with windows 7 (dual boot, 1 hdd). when installing ubuntu i accidentally gave it too much room. so i decided that i would remove it and reinstall it but this time ...
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Error: hd0 cannot get C/H/S values. grub rescue >
The power supply went out on our machine. We replaced the power supply.
Now when we boot up, all we get is a blank screen with a blinking cursor.
So we hold shift during boot up, and this error is ...
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Move Grub Boot loader into another partition
I am dual booting mac OS X with Ubuntu 64-bit and using the alternative install, when I got to the Grub boot loader I acidently selected the wrong partition to install, I installed the GRUB on the MAC ...
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Dual boot “Ubuntu Desktop 12.04” “Ubuntu Server 12.04” grub mess up!
I have a system with two version of Ubuntu in two hard drives, "Ubuntu Desktop 12.04" on the first one (sda1) and "Ubuntu Server 12.04" on the second one (sdb2).
(first installed Desktop then ...
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How can I repair my raided system if I have recently upgraded Ubuntu and the system starts now with “grub rescue”?
My question is as stated in the title.
I tried to find the constituents of Grub at different folders as described elsewhere and I found the folder but when I tried the insmod Linux command, the ...
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Stuck in GRUB Rescue Mode
I messed up my new laptop while trying to set up a dual-boot with Ubuntu and Windows 8.I did a whole bunch of stuff trying to get it to work and now when I try to boot I get stuck in GRUB's recovery ...
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12.10 Lost power, boots to grub rescue>
boot-repair http://paste.ubuntu.com/1458019/
To my novice eyes it appears that the /sda SSD is the problem. File system "unknown". /sdb is my home drive and appears intact.
Is there anything I can ...
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Booting Ubuntu Failure : error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'
I have installed ubuntu 12.10 in a WD external harddrive (320GB). This is a complete installation, not live USB.
When I plug it in my HP desktop I go to the BIOS settings and boot off the harddrive, ...
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Grub rescue problem after installing ubuntu
I have windows 7 installed in my internal hdd and wanted to try out Ubuntu so I got a USB to put Ubuntu LiveUSB on and installed Ubuntu on an external HDD and everything worked out fine.
Now the ...
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GRUB Rescue Command Problem
I did originally have Ubuntu installed on my Laptop, however I then installed Joli OS, since I did not want it any more, I formatted the disk which had Joli OS on, thinking that it would revert back ...
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How to delete grub entirely from grub rescue. Boot windows only
I had installed ubuntu (twice actually) onto the same drive. I wanted to 'try again' since one of them didn't install correctly and the other installed differently, but it worked. I was getting ...
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Ubuntu doesn't boot due to GRUB-Problems
Users out there,
I came here with the spark of a hope, that you could help me.
I want to get rid of my old WinXP, because the Game-Support for it seems to slowly expire now... So I took a second ...
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“Multisystem” lost avareness of installed OS
I was using Multisystem - http://liveusb.info/dotclear/
With it i had made USB multiboot with all these in one USB:
Ubuntu 10.04.04 persistent
Ubuntu 10.04.04 live
Ubuntu 12.04 live
Ubuntu 12.10 live
...
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Grub is missing after installation
I installed ubuntu,but when I restarted my machine it shows:
error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found
grub rescue>
I tried running boot-repair from live cd here is the dump of that: ...
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Error: no such partition help!
Ok so i had Ubuntu installed on dual boot with windows 7, i decided i liked it, btu i did not want the dual boot option so i decided to uninstall it. no whenever i turn on my computer the "error: no ...
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Error: hd0 out of disk grub rescue>
I restarted my laptop after my chromium started to freeze, and this popped up when it turned back on. Can someone help me? Still new to ubuntu and I know nothing about coding and programming.
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Ubuntu kernel can't read its own root partition, but LiveCDs can?
My / partition is unreadable from the hard drive install, but I just ran fsck on it and know it's clean. I can open it in Nautilus from the LiveCD but chrooting to it doesn't work! It [the chrooted ...
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Grub rescue: unknown filesystem error while booting from USB
I'm currently using ubuntu 12.04 which has grub2 and wanted to install windows 8 from my USB, i also created a bootable usb flash drive using windows 7 dvd download tool, the problem is - I formatted ...
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Grub rescue doesn't allow me to boot from LIVE CD/USB
I used to have Windows Vista & Ubuntu 12.04 on dual boot. Accidentally, I deleted the Linux partition and landed on Grub rescue on the next boot. The tricky thing for me here is I have been trying ...
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Can't boot from Ubuntu 12.04 live USB
I'm trying to recover GRUB after installing Windows 7. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 first, then installed Windows 7 so I lost the GRUB at startup. Made a USB stick with Ubuntu to boot from, I get the menu ...
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grub problem after grub-repair
I had two OS,win 7 and Ubuntu, I was working with win and went out of the room and when came back I saw Grub Rescue!!! I booted live and did grub_repaire and it still says multiple active ...
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Grub rescue help. Other answers not working
Today I tried to start up my computer, and was welcomed by
Error: no such partition.
Grub rescue>
It is some kind of command prompt.
I had 2 seperate versions of ubuntu, along with windows 7.
I have ...
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grub rescue prompt noticing after upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10
After upgrading my HP DM4 laptop from 12.04 to 12.10, I get the "grub rescue prompt" when rebooting.
I had tried boot-repair but that didn't help.
Here is the history:
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