Well, after waiting for a solution (one which I could do myself without spending days at learning more about linux immediately) to the problem for a month now, I decided to reinstall 10.04 using the alternate cd.
Before anything else, I logged onto vista and deleted all of the linux partitions except the home partition i.e. deleted /, /var, /tmp and swap. Then I reinstalled 10.04 using an alternate install cd without formating the home folder after which the grub got overwritten. Then I reinstalled grub to /dev/sda with sda8 mounted as root Directory. So, thereafter ubuntu is back runnning with nearly all of my settings intact. However, firefox and thunderbird did not start properly saying, "Firefox is already runnning, please close the existing window before starting a new one." A similar error appeared for Thudnerbird as well and the reason was the the fstab was overwritten with the install and the partition with the firefox profile did not automount at startup. So, after editing the fstab i.e. sudo gedit /etc/fstab I was able top restore my system to nearly a 100% of the state before crash. Happy with it now. -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
