Im stuck at grub menu and cant boot to Ubuntu!

Question

So I used boot repair and got rid of all old kernels and then I restarted My Toshiba satellite and didn’t get the regular menu entries like before where I can just pick an image and boot into Ubuntu. Now it just gives me the

minimal bash-like line editing… Tab lists possible command completions…

with this in the next line.

grub> 

I don’t know what to do here I read online some things to try in order to get back to Ubuntu but nothing has worked. Can you guys help me?

Solution 1

Type the following commands & change disk partition according to your system.

ls
set prefix=(hd0,1)/boot/grub #note: maybe (hd0,2) or (hd0,3)
set root=(loop0)
set
ls /boot
insmod /boot/grub/linux.mod
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro #note: maybe sda2 or sda3 to match #2 above.
initrd /initrd.img
boot

When you get Ubuntu booted running update-grub should fix the problem. For more details visit http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1599293.

Solution 2

With a little tweaking I got this working.

Here's what I did:

Grub> ls

I got the different partitions.

Grub> ls (hd0,msdos1)

this showed me the files on my HDD, so this is the correct partition for me.
Then I did:

Grub> set root=(hd0,msdos1)
Grub> set prefix=(hd0,msdos1)/boot/grub
Grub> set
Grub> ls /boot #this returned a list of files/folders in /boot
Grub> linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1
Grub> initrd /initrd.img
Grub> boot

After a few minutes of doing it's thing, grub booted into the busybox shell, where I was able to run fsck /dev/sda1 and a couple presses of 'y' later, Ubuntu booted like normal!

Comments

[Dro Shake]

Thanks for the fast response. However, when I put that info into grub> it says no server is specified and that I have to load the kernel first

[lttesp]

First type ls command to list all disk drivers. According to the disk partition, change the command and try it.

[Dro Shake]

I did exactly that and after ls /boot, it tells me no server is specified. Is that a good thing?

[Jules Colle]

After insmod /boot/grub/linux.mod I get error: file /boot/grub/linux.mod not found.

[Jules Colle]

Thanks. Just 2 lines I had to change were: Grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1, Grub> initrd /boot/initrd.img But then, before it booted in Busybox, I got ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist