GRUB ?

[NoOp]

On 08/27/2008 10:31 PM, Pastor JW wrote:
> Okay, ...a friend has an Acer 5100 with Vista and Ubuntu 8.04 (wubi install) 
> which until last night was working perfectly.  However, it now just starts 
> and goes to a plain black screen with the word "GRUB" and a cursor line but 
> never goes any further.  Left it sit over an hour.  It will take no input, I 
> thought tab might bring up some options but nothing seems to work.  On an 
> impulse, I rebooted it with my PClinuxOS 4 gig USB "pen drive" and it brought 
> up options which allowed it to boot to either the Vista drive or the Ubuntu 
> drive just like the machine used to!  Thought perhaps Grub was bad so booted 
> into Ubuntu and reinstalled it with synaptic but without the pen drive, no 
> joy.  With the pen drive in, it would also bring up the menu to boot to 
> Vista.  Once that menu is up one can remove the pen drive and boot into Vista 
> just like it always did.  Any ideas how to fix it?  He has many files on both 
> Vista and Ubuntu which he really does not want to lose.  And once past the 
> GRUB deal both systems work fine without any further need of the pendrive.  
> Actually it make no difference whether it is there or not as soon as the menu 
> come up.  
> 

Check the c:\ubuntu\disks\boot directory for grub and menu.lst

It should look something like this:
## ## End Default Options ##

title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root		()/ubuntu/disks
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=D0F4AA79F4AA6208
loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro quiet splash
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic

title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode)
root		()/ubuntu/disks
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=D0F4AA79F4AA6208
loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro single
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic

title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, memtest86+
root		()/ubuntu/disks
kernel		/boot/memtest86+.bin