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Grub gives messages about the boot sector being used by other software. What should I do?

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http://askubuntu.com – This only happens with one of my computers. It is an elderly laptop that has had a long and varied history with several operating systems, but in its retirement it is acting as a server for my home network using Ubuntu 12.04. It is a single-boot system, there are no other systems installed. Every so often, whenever there is a grub upgrade, I notice a message like this: Setting up grub-common (1.99-21ubuntu3.4) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/00_header ... Setting up grub2-common (1.99-21ubuntu3.4) ... Setting up grub-pc-bin (1.99-21ubuntu3.4) ... Setting up grub-pc (1.99 (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 10/01/2012

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I have a dual boot of Win7 and Ubuntu on my HP laptop. I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 today and on restart I got a different black Grub screen instead of the usual purple one. (GNU GRUB version 1.99-21ubuntu3.1) Each boot option only returns error messages.

Can't get grub to display on startup despite:

Code: sed -i s/"quiet splash"// /etc/default/grub && update-grub Any ideas why grub doesn't display?

grub2-common 1.99-21ubuntu3.1

HI, thanks for looking.

I'm trying to build a flash drive that can boot using EFI and GRUB2. GRUB 2.00-beta6 is able to do this but my Ubuntu host computer has GRUB 1.99-21ubuntu3.4, which lacks the newer grub-install commands.

I installed grub2-bios into partition ,instead of MBR.I removed /boot/grub directory before the upgrade just in case# chattr -i /boot/grub/core.img # rm -rf /boot/grub/ # pacman -Syu # modprobe dm-modAfter grub2-bios and grub2-common have been upgraded , I ran# grub-install --directory=/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc --target=i386-pc --boot-directory=/boot --recheck --force --debug /dev/sda1 # chattr +i /bo

Grub2 boots into CLI mode. 35 weeks 1 day ago

I just did a complete reinstall of my laptop installing fedora 17 and windows 7.

I installed Win7 after fedora 17, so i had to boot the live cd, chroot into my fedora install and reinstall grub.

Hi I'm new to ubuntu, but I need it so I tried the wubi one to see if it works and it actually boot it the first time, but after a restart I got stock here: I'm running it on Alienware M17X R1 windows 7 ultimate.

GNU GRUB version 1.99-21ubuntu3.1

Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions.

I tried installing Ubuntu 12.04 from the live CD. The install went fine but i had the next error while booting :

Grub stage 1.5 error 2.

So I used boot-repair as explained here. Still not working, i got this while booting :

GNU GRUB version 1.99-21ubuntu3

Minimal bash-like line editing is supported.

etc.. Nothing more.

Here the report from boot-repair.

Could anyone help me ?

Going through LFS 7.3 and about ready to make it bootable but Fedora's grub is giving me issue.

The plan was to share /boot between LFS and Fedora 18 as I have done in the past (been awhile since I ran LFS - LFS 4.something last time). Hell, I've shared /boot between Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu, and LFS.