Ubuntu 12 giving grub screen on booting?

Question

I have ubuntu and windows 7 on dual boot , now from some days i cant get in to the ubuntu login screen , whenever I boot ubuntu from the dual boot menu it gives a black sceen with some
main heading "GRUB VERSION " blahablah
and then this input line :
grub>_
I dont know How to get throught this I tried the startx command that works in bash but that wont work here , please help

Answer 1

You need to reinstall Ubuntu the exact same thing happened to me also.

Answer 2

What is happening is that instead of loading Ubuntu, it's loading the GRUB Terminal. You must of edited some system files on accident, but it's strange that it doesn't do this for Windows 7 too.



I am good with Ubuntu, but this is beyond my abilities to figure out. The most I can say it try these:

-Reinstall Ubuntu. It's not that hard. Though if you have some files that you need, I don't know how you are going to recover them.

-Ask the Ubuntu IRC channel. It's #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net. They are very helpful.

Answer 3

You just need to reinstall grub . don't go to install the whole OS. give me a minute i'll post the instructions.



try this out - http://www.howopensource.com/2012/05/reinstall-recover-grub-from-ubuntu-12-04-live-cd-usb/

Answer 4

Yes You can , Please rate me 1best answer