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I am running ubuntu Mate 14.04 Lts and just recently I have not been able to boot with the grub boot manager. When I hit enter to load ubuntu, my screen freezes at the boot menu. I am able to login by booting in recovery mode and then pressing resume. I am worried that my boot menu will not work and would appreciate any help in finding out why this is happening and how I can get my system stable again.

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  • I'd recommend trying sudo update-grub after logging in and see if that does anything. Are all of your partitions bootable?
    – sbergeron
    May 1, 2015 at 19:33
  • The update-grub did not work. I thought all my partitions were bootable but since a software update (which on restart was the initial incidence of the problem) I have discoverd a new and separate ubuntu boot option that I cannot account for. It may be that this happened before the update as the failure following the update is what caused me to examine my bios settings. Also when I use boot repair it says that my boot files are far from the start of the partition and may not be recognized by the bios. It also advises a new partition with their relocation to the front. May 1, 2015 at 19:52
  • I was initially wary of a new partition but it has started to seem that the partition is the source of the problem as to the boot-repair message and the mysterious partition. I uploaded all my recent changes to my programs and files to external storage as soon as I realized I could bypass grub via recovery mode. Am not looking forward to re-installing all my software packages and re-configuring my desktop and compilers. Thank god for shell scripting though... May 1, 2015 at 19:56
  • this is my boot-repair url paste.ubuntu.com/10964708 May 1, 2015 at 20:04
  • What was updating when it rebooted? Try running sudo sudo apt-get upgrade and then a dpkg-reconfigure command, as it might be a package that's causing the issue
    – sbergeron
    May 1, 2015 at 20:17

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