Need to recover from an ID-10-T error.

[UNGER, JOHN WM]

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From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of NoOp [glgxg at sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 6:32 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Need to recover from an ID-10-T error.

On 12/23/2009 05:50 PM, UNGER, JOHN WM wrote:
>
>
> You might have to forget what I wrote earlier... Grub error 15, from
> what i can google, indicates that grub is loading but unable to find the
> file called for in the boot definition.  If possible, can you provide to
> us the contents of your menu.lst file as well as a directory listing of
> of your boot partition?  (Mount it in a live cd enviroment, and ls >
> /mnt/usbstick/boot.txt, for example)
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Rashkae,
>
> I could send the menu.lst, but it's verbose. Do you still want it?
>
> I've not yet found out how to get to the HD from the terminal when booted from a CD, so I cannot ls /boot for you. From the GUI I see:
>
> abi-2.6.24-24-generic
> abi-2-6.24-25-generic
> config-2.6.24-24-generic
> config-2-6.24-25-generic
> initrd-imig-2.6.24-24-generic
> System.map-2.6.24-24-generic
> System.map-2-6.24-25-generic
> vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic
> vmlinuz-2-6.24-25-generic

While you're waiting for Rashkae to respond (and he knows what he is
talking about so wait for instructions from him), here are a few links
that you should have a look at to help you understand what he's trying
to get you to do:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto
Backup, Repairing and Reinstalling GRUB
  Command line
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=297261
http://linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_repair_your_grub
Re-install Grub with Live CD
 to
Installing Grub to MBR:
Note that this last is written on a linuxmint wiki, but the same will
apply to hardy in that section.

Regarding your menu.lst; the bits that are important are those that show
which where your boots are:

## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=(hd0,0)

title           Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-16-generic
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic
root=UUID=c606c2a7-1fb1-403f-9b90-50 ro quiet splash vga=773
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic
quiet

(Yes I know that yours will say Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel etc - but
those are the sections that are of most interest).

NoOp,

Thanks. I'm trying to determine if I didn't overlay the menu.lst with a foreign copy, so that it says hd0,0 when it ought to say hd0,1, and vice versa. (I have sda1, sda2, sda3 & sda4. In terms of sectors it starts with sda1, then sda3, then sda2, then sda4. I even found 2.22Mb unallocated - which confuses me. 
But I'm thinking sda1 is the Windows partition, and sda3 is the Ubuntu, which means, if I'm understanding what's going on, that I need to make the (hd0,0) entries into (hd0,1), and the final for Windows into (hd0,0). Unless I'm even more confused than I think I am.

-John U


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