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grub package

Cannot reboot after upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10

Asked by John Truine

I tried to up grade to Unbutu, 10 the old & new are on a partition on my hard drive , my first operating system is Vista & I have had no problems up to now running both systems. When the upgrade was almost finished I checked the box about GRUB I think I should have left it unchecked . and now the boot up will not proceed beyond saying no such device & the a number which I thought was my hard drive number I think I was wrong. What do I do now as the only way to make the computer work is to boot up from my disc drive using my Ubuntu disc.

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This question was originally filed as bug #655639.

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John Truine (trqu2000) said : 		#1

Everything was going fine until the above happened
Hope you can help thanks very much

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. This isn't yet definite enough to be a bug report, so I'm closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker, which is better-suited to dealing with this kind of thing. It may become a bug report again later once a volunteer has worked out what the underlying problem is.

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Best delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#3

Could you reinstall Grub from CD:
   https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20from%20LiveCD
This usually fixes such issue.

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John Truine (trqu2000) said : 		#4

What I had to do was reload my Vista & then I obtained the UBUNTU 10:10 DVD , I reloaded that from boot up & now everything is fine I am glad to say , I now have two systems working OK . What happened when I tried the update made the computer think that there was no operating system installed but of course there was but it would not boot at all . I am only an amateur as far as computers are concerned so if it does nt work I start from the basics again .