@Rony: > If you could put up your query again in a simple way, point wise, it may > get more replies. :)
Well,I tried to give the paramount things,namely what I did before the stuff happened,what happened,what I tried and what is the present situation.I'm sorry if it became unreadable. > > This site is usefull too. > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows?action=show&redirect=RecoverGrub If you read my original post,you would find that I've already reinstalled Grub from Ubuntu Live CD.The problem is that Grub tells me it cannot mount the partition it itself is on! @JTD > Have you tried the console method i posted? what was the result. I tried and the result was posted to the list.I tried some variations too.For your benefit: "Boot unsuccessful. /dev/hda7(/ for Ubuntu) had vmlinuz as symlink to boot/vmlinuz- 2.6.20-16-generic and a vmlinuz.old as symlink to boot/vmlinuz- 2.6.20-15-generic,both owned by root and 777 permissions. Similarly,initrd.img was symlink to boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic and initrd.img.old was symlink to boot/initrd.img- 2.6.20-15-generic,again owned by root and 777 permissions. I tried root=/dev/hda7 and root=/dev/hda5 with root (hd0,4).I also deleted the above symlinks in chroot mode because my /boot partition is not automount in my Ubuntu fstab and there's no use of symlinks which point to a file on a partition which is not mounted.Hopefully,that's not wrong. :P" > > PS:I was thinking of moving my /var/cache/apt/archives to my > > > /home partition and fresh install w/o touching the /home > > > partition in case nothing works out.Is that a good idea? > > I have yet to see an install which could not be booted with grub. > Here you see one. ;) Regards, Easwar -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
