Grub2 Issues

[Cameron64]

Nothing is necessary but for the last sentence.

I've made mistake after mistake today.
I went in to adjust my partitions to free up some space for ubuntu and ended up running over Grub2.

At first I was able to make it boot by putting in:

1. set prefix=(hdX,Y)/boot/grub
2. set root=(hdX,Y)
3. insmod normal
4. normal

It booted just fine and thought I was out of the woods, but downloaded a tool to repair grub just in case. The tool basically flushed grub of everything it had in order to get a fresh install. I got stuck in the process and thought rebooting might help.

I was wrong.

Now those previous commands go like so:

error: file not found.
grub rescue> set prefix=(hd0,msdos5)/boot/grub
grub rescue> set root=(hd0,msdos5)
grub rescue> insmod normal
error: file not found

So I figure, "hey, I'll just boot from a usb."....not letting me!

If I can just boot it from a live cd or usb, everything will be fine, I just can't find a way to do it with grub2 not working.

[yancek]

Are you using Ubuntu or one of its' derivatives? If so, which one and which version? Is this the only system you have? Do you have any bootable system on the computer?

If I can just boot it from a live cd or usb, everything will be fine, I just can't find a way to do it with grub2 not working.

Grub2 on your drive doesn't have anything to do with booting a Live CD or usb. Do you set your CD drive to first boot priority in the BIOS?

[Cameron64]

I dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04.
I believe CD is first to boot, but normally on startup I just hit f9 and it asks me what I want to boot from. Now it just goes straight to grub rescue.

One partition is readable, but when I flushed Grub2, it rid itself of the insmod normal it needed to boot.

If it's not first in line, how would I go about making it such? No matter what I hit on startup, it goes right to the rescue screen. : /
Frustrating.