By doing this grub is installed but it is not showing any boot options. It just stops and gives me a command line interface. <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 21, 2012 1:15 AM, "Nils Kassube" <<a href="mailto:kassube@gmx.net">kassube@gmx.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Vedang Patel wrote: > I am trying to install ubuntu 12.10. But, somehow there is some > error while installing grub. So, I am not able to boot into ubuntu. > I tried repairing it using boot-repair without any success. I also > tried reinstalling it multiple times. I am using it side by side > with Windows 7. Previously, I was using ubuntu 11.04 with windows 7 > without any problems. Please help with this issue. Following is the > link generated by boot-repair. > > <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/1294057/" target="_blank">http://paste.ubuntu.com/1294057/</a> I'm not sure, but to me it looks like grub tries to boot from sda1 while it should boot from sda5: | ============================= Boot Info Summary: =============================== | | => Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of | the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks | for (,msdos1)/boot/grub on this drive. I would try the following. Running the live system I would open a terminal and use these commands: sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda Then reboot. Nils -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>