ubuntu - Recovering from 'grub rescue>' crash - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

This answer is for others out there that DocSalvager's answer doesn't work for.

1. I followed DocSalvager's use of ls to find the correct hard drive partition. In my case it was (hd0,msdos5).
2. Then I executed the following commands to get back to the normal grub boot loader screen.
   
   
   
   

   grub rescue>  set boot=(hd0,msdos5)
   grub rescue>  set prefix=(hd0,msdos5)/boot/grub
   grub rescue>  insmod normal  
   grub rescue>  normal  
   

3. After booting into Ubuntu I repaired the grub boot loader with the following commands from the terminal.
   
   
   
   

   sudo grub-install /dev/sda 
   

Please reference this source for a visual walk through of this process.

 

 

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