Questions about using the grub rescue prompt or how to get rid of it.
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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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Accidentally deleted Ubuntu partition, Windows 8 hibernated, cannot access bios to boot from USB. Help?
I made a mistake I completely regret. After I deleted my Ubuntu partition in Windows 8, my battery got too low and I lost power. I plugged in the cord and restarted the machine and was hit with a GRUB ...
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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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GRUB error while trying to run fully installed Ubuntu 12.04 from SSD
Due to my laptop having a RAM problem, I removed its SSD(which contains an Ubuntu 12.04 installation, with my personal data) and attempted to boot it from my old P4 machine lying around. This P4 ...
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initramfs after grub rescue
I had a bootable USB key witk ubuntustudio with 2 partitions /dev/sdb1 with Ubuntu and a fat32 /dev/sdb2. Then I realized that Windows only reads partitions if they are the first. So I moved the ...
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Booting impossible cause GRUB rescue won't let me
I created two bootable USB: Lubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 from my windows machine.
SCENE 1
I installed Ubuntu 12.04, everything is fine. A popup window appears that says something like "I have ...
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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 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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Can't have overlapping partitions
I have a machine running ubuntu 12.04 and windows 8 on dual boot. I created a ntfs partition to do easy switching but as there were only 4 partition possible, I unknowingly deleted system reserved ...
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GRUB rescure mode, “error: unknow filessystem” and difficulty booting from USB
I was trying to install Ubuntu in a dual boot with win8, but I've installed several other distros in the past so I was quite confused by all the different partitions. I thought I'd solve this by ...
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Does “No such device”->grub rescue on on an established system herald a catastrophic event?
I've already found plenty of threads on "no such device" and grub rescue on AskUbuntu, but I'm wondering what this signifies if it happens not on a fresh install, but on a computer that has been ...
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Grub rescue problem
I've been working with Linux for a bit and have just recently tried Ubuntu 12 and I prefer 11.
But, when I went to install 11 again, I screwed up and deleted the partition with Ubuntu and have now ...
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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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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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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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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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“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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No boot or grub file after using ls command
I had xubuntu installed, i believe version 12.04 and then tried to dual boot with backbox. It worked from the flash drive but upon installing it onto the hard drive, I could no longer boot backbox. I ...
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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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Error:not file found grub rescue after installing ubuntu 12.10
I installed 12.10 and when it finished I restarted it, but it says at the beginning:
Error: file not found, Grub Rescue>
I then tried boot-repair and:
sudo add-apt-repository ...
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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 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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does not boot after install, my troubleshooting and google fu have failed me
I can only get an install to "stick" if I use shred to zerofill my drive first. Otherwise, when I install ubuntu or lubuntu 12.04, I will get "grub rescue: out of disk".
With the aforementioned ...
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GNU GRUB version 1.99-21ubuntu3 with windows installer
I have this problem after damage I think hit the OS
GNU GRUB version 1.99-21ubuntu3
Minimal bash-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. ...
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grub rescue after booting to ubuntu
in my laptop it is showing grub rescue and I have done the following steps
http://askubuntu.com/questions/201060/grub-rescue-cant-get-past-this-message-in-spite-of-everything-there-must-be#=
That is ...
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Restored from .img using dd now wont boot 12.04 Server
Did a back up a while ago of entire drive to a .img using dd
Ive tried to recover the same drive using and same img again using dd... and all seems to go ok using dd in the live environment
However ...
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Grub Rescue with Unknown File system
Hello there Ubuntu Community. I have a question and problem that needs to be solved quick.
Earlier today my computer was working perfect with a dual boot that I had running with Ubuntu 12.04 and ...
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error:attempt to read or write outside of disk “hdo”. grub rescue<
New PC, set up Win 7, removed Win 7 to install Ubuntu 13.04, installed fine. Once the disk is removed, at boot up It gives error:attempt to read or write outside of disk "hdo". grub rescue< What ...
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Help please, i got GRUB Error during another day
Note that this is very old and is already fixed. But there is a new problem about this user here: Wubi Error Installing
I've got GRUB Error with this:
Grub>
Its not even GRUB Rescue but I ...
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ubuntu will not load
Please help !
I am trying to install ubuntu wiht the DownLoad Windows Installer.
everthing seemed to work fine until it was done installing.
I got a blue screen and had to do a power off.
When I ...
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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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Grub Rescue Unknown Filesystem Error. Grub Corrupted or Filesystem?
Now it has happened twice & have been pulling my hairs now...
I have installed xubuntu on my external hardisk & have been using it for about 3 months. It has three partitions, one of 500 mb ...
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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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“error: unknown filesystem grub rescue” rescuing my old backup
I'm not working with Ubuntu any more, but I figured since my uninstalling Ubuntu caused this, I figured the community could help me.
Ubuntu 32-bit was not working in multiple areas for me, and I ...
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Dual boot problem: get grub rescue
Using Windows XP Pro; after installation of 12.04.2 from disk wouldn't boot. Tried installing boot-repair with terminal, fail--locked directory; burned disk, ran boot-repair, now I get grub rescue.
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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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Formatted hard disk in NTFS and now stuck with grub rescue
I had Ubuntu 12.04 installed on my desktop. However, I had some problems with that installation so I used the Ubuntu 12.04 live cd to format the hard disk to NTFS file system. Now, when I insert the ...
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SysLinux error in boot , says no input medium
I recently tried to install ubuntu with a pen drive. It booted the installer from usb, but then just flashed back "no input medium". I tried writing in the boot box 'boot.grub' but to no avail.
Can ...
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unknown filesystem grub rescue prompt when trying to re-install Windows 8
I am new to ubuntu I installed ubuntu and then accidentally formatted the drive which had Windows 8. Then I got error unknown filesystem grub rescue> but I somehow managed to solve the problem. Then I ...
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grub rescue: unknown filesystem
I know there are a lot of related posts but after searching for hours, none of them has worked for me so i'll post here:
When booting, I receive the error:
error: unknown filesystem
grub rescue>
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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 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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Help! Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed. This is a fatal error
I was installing a live cd to a usb using dd command and used 'sda' instead of 'sdb' which resulted in all sorts of problems now if I try to install it gives me a
Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' ...
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AMD grub2 reinstallation through liveCD not repairing grub - 12.04
I have been installing and reinstalling ubuntu of many flavors for the last couple days to no avail. My most current installation is 12.04 using the AMD-64 alternative text-only install live disc on ...
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Bootloader error Ubuntu 12.04, system goes to Grub-rescue instead of booting
I am trying to install ubuntu 12.04 on my system but it is constantly giving me bootloader install fail error.
I have tried to lot to solve this issue but reading articles over the internet but still ...
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Booting into Ubuntu (dual boot with Windows 7) drops to grub rescue prompt
I am using dual boot (Windows 7 and Ubuntu). When I boot the machine, this error displays on the screen:
grub rescue>
grub rescue> ls (hd0) (hd0,msdos6)...(hd0,msdos7)
(hd0,msdos6) ...
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How do I fix 10.04 grub.cfg from a Livecd to dual boot Windows?
I being new and trying to fix my system to boot into windows automatically edited my grub.cfg file to point at the windows file. now the system won.t boot as I entered the wrong number in the line I ...
