[ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

[scoundrel50a]

On 28/04/2012 20:43, Timothy Rittman wrote:
>
>
> On Sat 28 Apr 2012 15:31:46 BST, Kris Douglas wrote:
>> On 28 April 2012 14:34, scoundrel50a<scoundrel50a at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> been fiddling around, and its broke, it wont load.....I can get into 
>>> the
>>> terminal, even the rescue part, tried a few things on the rescue 
>>> side but it
>>> didnt work, is there any way I can use the terminal to repair this, 
>>> or do
>>> you think it would be easier to reinstall.....
>>
>> Are you getting any error messages or notices when the machine is
>> trying to boot into normal mode?
>>
>> Need a lot more information to make an educated recommendation.
>>
>
> I'm not sure whether you problem could be similar to issues I had on a 
> couple of previous upgrades where grub failed to install properly and 
> i was left at the grub rescue terminal. If so, the instructions to 
> reinstall GRUB2 may help on this page: 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling_GRUB2
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim
>

Is there anyway I can reinstall/repair using terminal, so that I dont 
loose all the folders I have on the laptop? Rather than go through loads 
of questions......might be easier.....