Restoring GRUB on Dual-Boot Vista-Ubuntu (9.10) Machine
I had Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) installed. I reinstalled Microsoft Vista. This knocked out the GRUB boot menu. To restore the boot menu, I followed some Ubuntu community documentation. The steps I used there, boiled down for my purposes, were simply to reboot from the Ubuntu CD, go into the Ubuntu partition via the Places menu, type "mount | tail -1" to make sure the Ubuntu partition was now mounted (in my case, it said something like "/dev/sda2 on /media/UBUNTU type 3" because I had named the partition using GParted), type "ls /media/UBUNTU/boot" to make sure I had the partition containing GRUB (along with memtest86+ and other files), and then run "sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/UBUNTU /dev/sda." That last command did not end in a number (e.g., sda2); it was simply the drive containing the boot partition. In place of UBUNTU in my example, I would have typed the long UUID if that was what the mount command had given me.
That pretty much fixed it. When I rebooted, I did have a GRUB menu. But when I opted to go into Ubuntu, I got an error message:
One or more of the mounts listed in /etc/fstab cannot yet be mounted:
SWAP: waiting for UUID=[UUID number]
Press ESC to enter a recovery shell.I pressed ESC. I went to Applications > Accessories > Terminal and typed "sudo gedit /etc/fstab." This opened fstab. The lines weren't wide enough to view clearly, so I expanded the box. Fstab contained an entry for SWAP, which (above) was the partition that didn't boot in my case. I started another Terminal session and typed "blkid" to see what the UUIDs were. I saw that the UUIDs and the /dev entries for SWAP didn't match. I changed the fstab line for SWAP to match what blkid had given me, for both the UUID and the /dev location. (I had to use the right-click option to copy from the Terminal output for blkid.) I saved fstab and rebooted. That seemed to fix it; the boot proceeded normally.
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