My Ubuntu 10.10 system suddenly froze/crashed for no reason and I had to hard reboot my computer. Surprisingly it doesn't load anymore and stay stuck on a grub rescue prompt after an "unknown filesystem" message.
My computer has (had) a dual boot of Ubuntu Precise and Windows 7. Recently, when I started the computer, grub gave me an error saying "Unknown filesystem", and sent me to grub rescue. I searched for solutions to this, and found this answer: Unknown filesystem error: grub rescue.
I did a dumb thing... I forgot that Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) switched to Grub2 which puts a ton of *.mod files (kernel modules) in /boot/grub. I thought they were soundtrack files put there erroneously and moved them. Needless to say, the next reboot was traumatic. I was presented with something I had no memory of ever seeing...
Hi,
I'm a pretty new Ubuntu user, and I can't figure out what to do from searching other threads.
Anyway, here's my situation:
I had Ubuntu 12.04 installed on a partition, and OSX 10.7 on another, and it worked great. Then after I installed 10.8, my Ubuntu partition no longer worked.
i have installed windows 7 in my 1st partition and ubuntu in my 4th partition. i was doing some partition managing stuff.
My computer does not have a working CD rom drive, so I had booted from USB (used UNetbootin to make the USB) to install Ubuntu initially. I had Ubuntu working on my laptop (Gateway 7330gz), started messing around with it, and decided I wanted to start fresh again.
Hi people i really need help. Im a 14 year old noob so yea i screw things up a lot. Anyways, my laptop is a Lenovo U260 with specs so bad i feel like puking, so i have had windows 7 home premium installed at first, then i installed Ubuntu alongside with the windows 7. Afterwards i installed Linux mint and Fedora, which i then wiped out fedora from a partition of 40 GB in my hard drive.
F12 Live CD boots and runs fine. I installed to hard drive and now get:
Grub loading.
error: unknown filesystem
grub rescue> _
(it is hung - I cannot type any commands here)
I think I somehow have to use root and setup but don't remember and can't find specifics
I recently repartitioned my hdd and I have damaged grub on my system. On boot I get the grub rescue prompt and I have to go through the following steps in order to boot normally:
set root=(hd0,msdos6)
set prefix=(hd0,msdos6)/boot/grub
insmod normal
normal
(Those steps were found on another post on here!).
I'm very tired of repeating this on every boot, how do I permanently fix grub>
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