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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error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found
error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found.
grub rescue>
What can I do??? I just sit and stare at it.
I found my old netbook (Dell Inspiron 1010). I have not used for about four years. I ...
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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.
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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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Can't boot from Live CD and can't find /boot/grub - next option?
I managed to break my installation of Ubuntu. The system crashed either while trying to adjust partitions or adjust the boot order (while in Windows) - not sure which as it was a while ago (the system ...
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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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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 rescue…delete ubuntu…windows 8…purple screen
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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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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Ubuntu 13.04 not booting after upgrade from 12.10
This is duplicate post from here
After upgrading to 13.04, I was able to boot into ubuntu.
I made change a line in grub from
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
to
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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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12.04 unable to boot on /sde, upgrade-grub and boot-repair failed
My problem is I've 4 disks in a raid array listed as sda, sdb... sdd and grub 2 refuses to boot on /sde (the 5th disk, standalone and containing a clean install of 12.04 LTS).
I tried all solutions ...
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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 ...
