Grub error leads to more errors

[Tom H]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Monday 15,November,2010 03:45 AM, mdovell at comcast.net wrote:
>> had a crash and after resetting (10.04 version) it stated on a command
>> line grub rescue.
>
> Try this to go to a normal prompt.....
> grub rescue> set prefix=(hdX,Y)/boot/grub
> grub rescue> insmod (hdX,Y)/boot/grub/normal.mod
> grub rescue> normal
>
> Then proceed to boot.
>
> (note (hdX,Y) is where your / is)

Just in case...

If "/boot" is a separate partition, "(hdX,Y)" should be the grub
device corresponding to "/boot". The prefix command will then be "set
prefix=(hdX,Y)/grub" and the insmod command will be "insmod
(hdX,Y)/grub/normal.mod".