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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com> wrote:

On 03/18/10 11:38, Deepika Ghuriani wrote:
> ... comp it didnt showed grub to select the OS from which i want to boot

> instead it showed- grub rescue:>

Sorry I missed this the first time. Its a bit hard to tell how badly
windows has messed things up. If you look at the grub manual page[1]

> Stops at `grub>`
>
> Symptom(s):
> * All I get is a grub prompt
> * Welcome to GRUB!
> * grub>
> * grub rescue>
>
> Cause(s):
> * GRUB 2 could not find a grub.cfg.
> * The grub.cfg was completely unworkable.
>
> Solution(s):
> * cat /grub/grub.cfg. If the word 'title' appears anywhere in the
> stanzas, then someone copied a menu.cfg directly.
> * Try some grub shell commands to see how the drive looks to GRUB
> 2, look at the configuration, find some file(s) that will boot.

So at least your grub.cfg file is damaged. In the grub shell section[2]
of the manual it show

> grub-rescue>
> ...
> Useful tip: try to load normal mode: insmod /boot/grub/normal.mod
>
> After this command help will show normal as possible command. Try it.
> Normal mode will be loaded. Now try to load ls
> (insmod /boot/grub/ls.mod), help and so on.

Can you load normal mode? From there it should be easier to tell how
bad things are.

Edward

1. http://grub.enbug.org/Manual#Panic!
2. http://grub.enbug.org/Manual#GrubShell

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Re: [tlug] can anyone help ..I need to repair my grub ...