<p>That's not going to help if the root partition is not in the partition table, though.</p>
<p>Additional questions for the OP: what partitioning utility was used to create the partition? Also, you said that the partition was encrypted, but if that is the case I assume you had to give the system a key at boot time before the kernel could even be loaded, is that correct?</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 18, 2012 2:36 PM, "Mike Thornton" <<a href="mailto:mrmthorntonlinux@gmail.com">mrmthorntonlinux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Try the command 'update-grub' . If that doesn't fix it see <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CreateBootPartitionAfterInstall" target="_blank">CreatBootPartitionAfterInstall</a><br>
( <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CreateBootPartitionAfterInstall" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CreateBootPartitionAfterInstall</a>
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On 2/18/2012 2:09 PM, John Pilman wrote:
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<pre>I am re-sending this because I don't think my last attempt at this
post was successful. I apologize if you are receiving it twice.
I got in a hurry when my laptop was booting. It dual boots Windows 7
and Ubuntu 10.10. While
booting I bumped the keyboard and I think it started a Windows
Recovery partition. I waited and then exited when presented with that
choice, now I get:
'error: no such partition'
grub rescue>
The ls command returns:
(hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos4) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos2) (hd0,msdos1)
When I boot Ubuntu from a live USB and look at gparted I see:
/dev/sdb1 ntfs PQMSERVICE 13 GiB diag
/dev/sdb2 ntfs SYSTEM RESERVED 100 MiB boot
/dev/sdb3 ntfs 94 GiB
/dev/sdb4 extended 190 GiB
unallocated unallocated 185 GiB
/dev/sdb5 linux-swap 5.86 GiB
I'm guessing my data is in the part marked unallocated. Here's my question:
Since I installed Ubuntu with encryption, would I be better off trying
to mount that partition and look for my data or
would you suggest I try to recreate or resurrect grub and its associated table.
Also, I'm looking at trying 'testdisk' but the instructions tell you
to use the one for your OS. I did not see specific instructions for
dual boot PCs. Does anyone have a relevant hint here?
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