You have to reinstall grub boot loader to fix this. Reinstalling grub can be done in 4 easy steps.
You have to reinstall grub boot loader to fix this. Reinstalling grub can be done in 4 easy steps.
Please follow these steps to reinstall grub boot loader
- Boot your machine using Ubuntu Live CD
- After the machine is booted and ready, Open a terminal window
- Type sudo grub
- Now type find /boot/grub/stage1
- You will get some output like (hd0,4). Yours might be different. But make sure you enter it same as it appears in the next step. For ex if your output is (hd0,2), enter root (hd0,2) in the next step
- Enter root (hd0,4)
- Enter setup (hd0)
- Enter quit
Reboot the machine, Now your machine should boot using grub boot loader.
Have fun with ubuntu.
NOTE: While you enter grub> setup (hd0) your output might look like the following:-
setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 17 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+17 p (hd0,4)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.
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If it says "command not found", just install grub using
- Visitor 30 weeks 6 days agosudo apt-get install grub and follow the instructions as mentioned above
this command def doesn't work any longer. I get the same error message "command not found" even with root permission.
- Visitor 1 year 34 weeks agoyeah this def doesn't work any longer. it says command not found even with root permission.
- Visitor 1 year 34 weeks agoI followed the instructions, it comes back with
- Visitor 1 year 40 weeks agosudo: grub: command not found
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
I hav Asus K40in and i installed it in but it dosn;t work
- Visitor 1 year 50 weeks agoExactly what i was looking for, thanks much!!
- Visitor 2 years 29 weeks ago