[ubuntu-in] Eroor at the time of booting, Grub Error.15

[Mallikarjun(ಮಲ್ಲಿಕಾರ್ಜುನ್)]

2009/12/14 Mallikarjun <mallik.v.arjun at gmail.com>

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>
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Ravi Joshi <ravi.joshi53 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>     I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 some day ago.Before installing Ubuntu9.10
>> i have Ubuntu9.04,BT4(KDE,Ubuntu8.10)and WindowsXP installled in my
>> laptop.At the time of installing Ubuntu 9.10 i have checked in the icon
>> Install Boot Loader.After complete installation when i restart my laptop it
>> is showing grub error 15 at the time of booting.
>>      I restart my laptop and login it using Ubuntu Live CD and there is
>> nothing at the location boot/grub/ . No menu.lst file found.I tried to copy
>> it from BT4(KDE,Ubuntu8.10) and paste it at the location boot/grub/ but i
>> have no permission to paste on this location.
>>      What should i do to boot my all OS?
>>
> You have to some work but trivial dont worry
>
> First of all ubuntu karmic have new grub loader 1.97beta6..., so there is
> menu.lst in /boot/grub instead /boot/grub/grub.cfg is the file
> and config files are available in /etc/grub.d folder
>
> Recovery should be like this
>   Boot into live CD
>   open Terminal
>   type in commands as follows
> *      sudo /dev/sdax /mnt*  (sdax is the ubuntu karmic partition, if you
> dont know go to system --> administrative-->disk utility and find out)
> *      sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda* (drive name)
>
> This should give you grub menu at start
>
> if you want to add any entries append your grub entries like below
>   menuentry "Windows XP" {
>             set root=(hd0,1)
>             chainloader +1
>   }
>
> Sorry i forgot to tell where to append
/etc/grub.d/40_custom

> and then type in command
> *  sudo update-grub*
>
>
> Hope this helps, please find yourself more information from grub2 ubuntu
> wiki page
>
>>
>> -Ravi Joshi
>>
>>
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