I am a newbie

**kaschiro** · 02-15-2009

I am a total newbie to linux...I have installed ubuntu and now it took me to grub..now what do I do...I am duo booted with xp pro and my disk if formatted to fat32..what do type at the "grub"
Kas
Ps I have spent my entire life with windows so be kind and gentle with me..go slow I am also a senior

**D-cat** · 02-15-2009

Ummm, getting the grub prompt is not a good thing, you're supposed to get a menu so you can choose if you want to boot Windows or Ubuntu.

I'm not very handy with Grub in a text interface, see the following post, might be able to help.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...tml#post667850

**kaschiro** · 02-15-2009

I did get a menu during boot and it kicked me into grub and now grub wants me to do something..if this gets to complicated I may have try a simpler linux prog

**D-cat** · 02-16-2009

Okay, what menu items have you tried? Does this happen no matter what option you choose? Is there a message that accompanies the drop to the grub prompt?

Like I said, this is just odd, it isn't supposed to happen this way. It means something didn't install right.

**kaschiro** · 02-16-2009

when it goes into grub it gives about 30 commands when you hit tab, i tried some of them and i get some error message..some of cmds are fstest, erial setkey geometry halt help and so forth..it is almost like dos..very comfuseing

**D-cat** · 02-16-2009

Right, I'm talking while the menu is still up, before the drop to the grub prompt.

**stef4001** · 02-20-2009

Download iso supergrub Super Grub Disk Webpage: Download
burn it and boot with it select linux.
It wil let you see the ubuntu grub and select uption repair.
this has workt for me in the most cases.
Have fun

**Jonathan183** · 02-20-2009

Supergrub should do the job ... you should be able to fix this without Supergrub also ...

If you are dropped straight at a grub prompt when you boot the PC then try typing

Code:

find /boot/grub/menu.lst

if it returns something like (hd0,1)
type ...

Code:

root (hd0,1)
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
boot

... but replace (hd0,1) with whatever you get returned from the find command. That should bring up the grub menu and allow you to boot Ubuntu. Once you know that works shutdown the system and restart it ... this time at the grub prompt type ...

Code:

root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0)
reboot

... replace (hd0,1) with the output from the find command. You should get the menu ...

**kaschiro** · 02-20-2009

OK guys and gals...I will not let this thing beat me...so what I did was go into the pc and take out one of the 2 disk that were slaved and just use one drive...then I stuffed a dos disk in there and did a fdisk so all I had was one partition...did format c: and reinstalled xubuntu and every thing started to work..thanks for all of your efforts..I did the super grub disk and I do have ready to go should I need it in the future...when I tot the prog to work and I down loaded all of the new files(all 170 of them I think, at least there were a lot of them) and now I am exploring the world of linux and to tell you I feel like I am on a differnt planet...I have been with ms all these years...I do have many questions to ask, you have not heard the last of me...
Kas

**Jonathan183** · 02-21-2009

Glad your sorted ... keep hold of the SuperGrub disk it is handy to have for Linux and Windows boot problems

... and enjoy Linux

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