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grub rescue issue

Asked by conor hassett

hello
please help, you are probaly all familar with the grub rescue issue after installing 14.04, i tried a few of the online guides and even tried restore from a cd but grub rescue still comes up,
i have windows 7 and ubuntu 14.04,
im usuing an emachines e372, sata mode ide, quiet boot- disabled, network boot- disabled, d2d recovery- enabled
so im getting
grub rescue> ls (hd0,6)
(hd0,6): filesystem is ext2.
grub rescue> ls (hd0,6)/boot/grub/
./ ../ gfxblacklist.txt i386-pc/ locale/ fonts/ grubenv grub.cfg

p.s. there also seem to be an issue with the bios driver, none of the funtion keys are working (using an external key board.

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conor hassett (conorhassetthoff) said : 		#1

got it!!
set boot=(hd0,6)
set prefix=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/
insmod normal
normal

now how to i reset the grub

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conor hassett (conorhassetthoff) said : 		#2

got it!!
set boot=(hd0,6)
set prefix=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/
insmod normal
normal

now how to i reset the grub

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conor hassett (conorhassetthoff) said : 		#3

sudo apt-get purge grub-pc grub-pc-bin

Then:

sudo apt-get install grub-pc grub-pc-bin

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conor hassett (conorhassetthoff) said : 		#4

grub resvue returns soab

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conor hassett (conorhassetthoff) said : 		#5

ok so every time i restart the computer i get the grub rescue screen
i enter
set boot=(hd0,6)
set prefix=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/
insmod normal
normal

which then brings me to to a second grub screen gnu grub version 2.02
then entered
set root=(hd0,6)
linux /linuz root=/devsda6 ro
initrd /initrd.img
boot
got back into unbuntu , but how to i stop this from happening again and get the normal dual boot up?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#6

Try the boot info script to get the details of the boot sectors and boot programs of you system.

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conor hassett (conorhassetthoff) said : 		#7

i got boot repair and gparted to remove a bad sector , every thing back to normal