lucid won't boot up

There might be an easier solution rather than re-installation.

You can try to re-install grub as per instructions here.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20from%20LiveCD

Or post the output of bootinfoscript as per instructions here to let us know more deeply into the problem.

http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net

What I ended up doing was making a maverick 10.10 install disk which let me boot up lucid and then I upgraded to 10.10

Thanks though for the answers guys.

well the problem is back again so i followed directions from last time i can not find the RESUSTS.txt file but i can paste the response i got from the terminal manager are as follows:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="02721019721013CF" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="PENDRIVE" UUID="2611-0961" TYPE="vfat"
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt
mount: special device /dev/sdXY does not exist
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo bash [path/to/the/download_folder]/boot_info_script*.sh
bash: [path/to/the/download_folder]/boot_info_script*.sh: No such file or directory
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ bash ~/Desktop/boot_info_script*.sh
bash: /home/ubuntu/Desktop/boot_info_script*.sh: No such file or directory
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

that response was after loading ubuntu 10.10 from a flash drive every time i try to boot ubuntu normally again i end up going to

grub>

Let us figure it out for you.

For running that script, put it on your Desktop and then,

sudo bash ~/Desktop/boot_info_script*.sh

replace boot_info_script*.sh with the name of downloaded file.

@Sikander: if an issue is about Ubuntu installed inside a Windows partition, link to project "wubi" as we have an expert who subscribed "Answers" on this one (not me, but bcbc).

Hi Edward, lately there have been some problems with wubi installs caused by a grub update (grub is the boot loader used by ubuntu). Anyway, the grub update is corrupting a file required for wubi booting (wubildr).

So, usually you can fix it by copying c:\ubuntu\winboot\wubildr over the file c:\wubildr

But, I'm not entirely sure, reading this question, where you are at right now. It might help to publish those bootinfoscript results.

1. Go to http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net
2. Click on the download link, and when it prompts you save it in the Downloads folder (should be the default)
3. Go to a terminal CTRL-ALT-t and run (the next command is case sensitive):
sudo bash ~/Downloads/boot_info_script055.sh
4. It will tell you the name of the results file, e.g. RESULT.txt or RESULT1.txt etc. Open up that file e.g.
gedit ~/Downloads/RESULT1.txt
and cut and paste the results to http://pastebin.ubuntu.com
5. Note the address that pastebin gives you and post it back here

well I ended up doing a fresh install of 10.10 so far so good. Thanks for all the interest.