Repairing Ubuntu without loosing data or breaking Windows

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Enrique Becerra <kabeza at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps you could boot from the Live CD and check if your the problem
>> persists, if so you may gave a hardware problem, if not you could try
>> to reconfigure your system with "dpkg-reconfigure -a".
>>
>> L.
>
> LiveCD starts and works perfect, no problems.
> where should I run dpkg-reconfigure -a ? in the liveCD terminal?

- Remove the live CD
- Restart your system
- In the GRUB menu there is a "Recovery Mode" that will boot in to
single user mode (terminal only)
- there you should run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a"


If your system starts up automatically with no Grub menu you'll
probably have to edit grub.cfg for it to do so as explained in:
"Command Line and Rescue Mode" on
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#/etc/default/grub%20%28file%29
.

L.

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L M Nicolosi, Eng.
GNU-Linux Regist. User #481505 - http://counter.li.org/
Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64