Need help recovering from a failed Ubuntu upgrade [solved]
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:01 pm
My problem is this: I was in the middle of an upgrade from Ubuntu Edgy Eft to Feisty Fawn, when I had to leave, and had to force the upgrade to quit. I then shut down and left for vacation for a week. When I came back, I went to finish the upgrade, but when I got to the grub screen, there was suddenly 2 versions to pick from, which made sense, since I was in the middle of an upgrade, but neither version or their recovery modes would boot. After trying a few different tactics, I booted into my win 2000 server and formatted the linux drive. I shut down, and try to boot, but i get a message that says:
GRUB Loading stage1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 17
and then it does nothing. I put my Feisty Fawn cd in to maybe install it clean and reinstall grub, but it doesn't load the screen and comes back to the error message.
I now can't boot any OS, and I really, really don't want to do a clean reinstall.
Now that I think about it, I will try the live cd of Ubuntu dapper drake i have, and if i can find it the windows boot disk while I'm waiting for a response. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
GRUB Loading stage1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 17
and then it does nothing. I put my Feisty Fawn cd in to maybe install it clean and reinstall grub, but it doesn't load the screen and comes back to the error message.
I now can't boot any OS, and I really, really don't want to do a clean reinstall.
Now that I think about it, I will try the live cd of Ubuntu dapper drake i have, and if i can find it the windows boot disk while I'm waiting for a response. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.