Ahem, so after completing the installation, I shut the laptop down and went to bed. Starting it up this morning, everything was usual, the Windows boot selector came up, and I went to Ubuntu... Upon doing so, Grub came up with the terminal. I used my (very limited) knowledge to input "boot". When I press enter, the text "Can not find Operating System" or something similar, is displayed. The computer then restarted. Tried again, nothing. So I booted up Windows and here I am.

What hard drive and partition is Ubuntu installed to? Maybe you need to set it (GRUB) up again... mine never gave ME problems upgrading a distro... to type boot, you need some variables in place, so... i need to know ur Ubuntu partition and what hard disk (first, second, third...) and maybe I can help u redo GRUB... I'm sorry that happened, but it only happened to me once, and not with that distro upgrade...

Truthfully, I have no clue. I just ran the installer for windows with all default settings. Where should I start, and what to do?

Chances are that Linux may be on (hd0,0) or (hd0,1); what if you try "root (hd0,0)" then boot, or "root (hd0,1)" then boot? Maybe 1,0 or 1,1, although I doubt you have more than one physical disk in your laptop?

As in the title: "So you used WUBI?"

Affirmative.

The partition is probably (hd0,2) or (hd0,3) because grub2 uses teh actual partition # but still starts hard drives at 0.

How many partitions are accessible from Windows?

Finding out...

Do you have another PC capable of accessing the internet? If so, it'd be MUCH faster to help you get Ubu back up and running.

In fact, I have a small netbook I can use with Windows XP. I'll go ahead and login.

EDIT: on it now

I still need to know the partition count... and do you have Windows 7 or an earlier Windows... it actually matters...



ON THE UBUNTU MACHINE (RUNNING WINDOWS):

type in WindowsKey+R (brings up run box), then type in compmgmt.msc and click ok. In the list on the left, click Disk Management. Look at your main HDD's partitions. Ubuntu will most likely be the first partition of unknown type. Count from the left and see what partition number the first unknown one is.

Newest 7, professional.

None say unknown, this is the order.

1. (no name, just blank)________healthy partition

2. System Reserved________healthy system active primary partition

3.C_______healthy boot page file crash dump, primary

4. Disk (F: )

Try to run this in GRUB:



insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,4)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-6-generic root=(hd0,4)
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-6-generic
boot



If Ubuntu boots, run sudo update-grub in the Terminal IMMEDIATELY!!!

Error on this line: no such partition.

Also: Kerm, the newest stable AND alpha versions use grub2; the commands aren't really the same anymore; i.e. you must use set root=(hdX,Y), and it uses modules now. I take it you haven't used Ubuntu in a while, am I right?

is it only on that line or for set root= too?

Well, that line seems to load the Kernel, because the next line says, no loaded kernel. Other then that, the previous commands work.

Try that one line while excluding root=(hd0,4)

Or maybe try (hd0,1) for both the set root=... and linux... lines.

And, you are correct; vmlinuz is the kernel; initrd.img is the ramdisk image.

You know what sucks? All this over SOUND... not that I don't enjoy helping people with computers; I really do, but now GRUB is messed up because of a sound issue... WOW...

I'm VERY sorry to put you through all this...