Hi. Good day.
I am relatively new to Linux and I'm writing because I would like to ask for
help. I've been using Ubuntu as my only OS for about 8 months now and
everything seemed fine until now. I couldnt get into the desktop.
When I open my PC, there's that black screen that says:
grub loading please wait
error 17
I tried booting from a live disk. One from Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Another from
Knoppix. My goal was just to recover my files and copy it an external hard
disk. At both times, I could not see the hard disk with the Linux OS installed
in it.
So I tried googling about grub error 17 and it turned me to this page.
Eventually, I ended up on another page that talked about using Super Grub Disk.
I tried the Super Grub Disk but it still didnt work.
I also learned that this error is usually for those with multiple OSes. And I
am really starting to wonder why I got this error since I only have Ubuntu
installed in my machine.
When I was also using the live cd, I tried using the terminal and typing "sudo
fdisk -l" and "sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst" based on a post in the ubuntu
forum. When I entered the second command, the file was blank.
Finally, I thought of just restoring Grub from the live cd based on another
ubuntu forum post. But when I entered "find /boot/grub/stage1", it throws out
"Error 15: File not found".
I really just want my files back. Thank you for your time.
Roy
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