pre-installed win7. installed U10.10 now won't boot
This should be simple, but I haven't found a way to fix it....
I'm replacing a 3 station network of workstations with identical eMachine units with Win7 pre-installed.
First, the old workstations (Win XP) data & etc. were moved to the new machines using laplink mover. No major problems (2 were moved using external HD, the 3rd by direct cable.)
Ubuntu 10.10 was installed alongside Win7 in all three machines.
The machines were networked, and the OS's updated.
Two of the machines (1 cabled and 1 via external HD) worked fine, and now will boot either OS.
The third is being very strange.
Post looks fine, but I get the message "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key."
I'm assuming that grub is corrupted???
I can boot from a 10.04 cd, and the partitions are there and the Win 7 partition appears to be fine, it's just that I can't boot from either OS on the HD.
eMachines Athlon II 2GB, 500GB drive partitioned:
PQSERVICE 19GB /dev/sda1 ntfs
System Reserved 105MB /dev/sda2 ntfs
windows 279GB /dev/sda3 ntfs
Extended (Container of logical partitions) 202GB /dev/sda4
ext4 (ver 1) Linux filesystem 193GB /dev/sda5
Swap Space 8.2GB /dev/sda6
On the working machines grub comes up and offers Ubuntu, XP/Vista/Win7 loaders - though only Win 7 & U10.10 are loaded. Both Win 7 & U10.10 work on those machines (I haven't tried the XP or VIsta loaders since they're not installed.
Any help (esp pointers to a solution!) appreciated.
Peace.
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