Grub Customizer

help! I seem to have turned off everything except memtest and I can't boot ubuntu or windows

Asked by mistafeesh

I thought I was turning off various extra options in grub customizer and I really should have made a rescue boot disk, but I messed around and somehow now all grub2 comes up with is memtest. I was just trying to make it a bit less complicated

I've tried various things from the grub command line and the ubuntu liveCD (10.10) but I can't get it up and running again. Can you help?

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mistafeesh (dan-oxdance) said : 		#1

I followed instructions to purge and reinstall grub2 from the liveCD here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1581099 but it still comes up with just memtest - I guess it's still finding the custom file I've made somewhere.

I also tried pressing c in grub2 and manually booting linux, but didn't get anywhere....

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mistafeesh (dan-oxdance) said : 		#2

phew! fixed it! Sorry to bother you. I see now that i'd somehow unticked linux boot. D'oh!
 I followed these instructions to boot: http://techgage.com/news/repairing_a_broken_grub_2_boot-loader_on_ubuntu/ and went into grub customizer and reticked stuff!

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Daniel Richter (danielrichter2007) said : 		#3

Hi,
another way to restore your grub configuration would consist of installing grub customizer inside the live system (temporarily) and to run it from there. It will show up a dialog which lets you choose your root partition. After doing this you can use grub customizer in the same way as inside an installed system.

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mistafeesh (dan-oxdance) said : 		#4

That's cool I didn't think of that... I had unticked the tick for the whole linux section without realising it covered all the subsections too... Maybe in a future release it might be a good idea to indent them a little more? Just for daft people like me! Fantastic bit of software though. I've just set ubuntu up on a friends computer and wanted to simplify his boot process because grub was looking really confusing. I've used it on my dual boot laptop too now.

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Daniel Richter (danielrichter2007) said : 		#5

Hmm I don't want to increase the width of the checkbox column too much… but instead I'll gray out all the entries owned by disabled scripts in the next release (2.1). I hope this is okay too :)

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mistafeesh (dan-oxdance) said : 		#6

Yeah that sounds sensible.