Started getting error: out of partition errors and windows partition won't boot

[John O'Brien]

I've been using precise since it was an alpha and I upgrade daily to keep up. Today I rebooted and started getting an error when I select my ubuntu partition 'error: out of partition' But it eventually does boot. When I boot Windows 7 partition however, I get a disk error.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: grub-pc 1.99-21ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 6 13:29:11 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Please post your partition layout ('sudo parted -l'). It would also help if you could recall the exact version when it last worked (both Ubuntu and Windows partitions); if necessary perhaps successively downgrade all the grub* packages to versions from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+publishinghistory ...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

bug 973095 seems rather similar

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Comment 6 in bug 973095 indicates the following:

"Also affects me. Kernel 3.2.0-20, 3.2.0-21 unaffected. 3.2.0-22 and 3.2.0-23 are broken and refuse to boot."

[Dmitry Koplyarov (koplyarov-da)]

These are my partitions:
/dev/sda1 - windows 7 system drive
/dev/sda2 - linux rootfs
/dev/sda3 - ntfs drive
/dev/sda4 - windows 7 bootloader, i guess
grub-install /dev/sda fixed my problem. The strange thing is I've already had it installed to my mbr.

[glauberdionisio (glauberdionisio)]

I've had the same problem and can't install ubuntu 12.04 in dual boot with Windows 7. After install it simply doesn't boot, and after a few tries, only Windows 7 starts.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

What does this command show:

sudo debconf-show grub-pc | grep install_devices:

[glauberdionisio (glauberdionisio)]

Ok. After a few tries, I restored Windows 7 boot through "bootsect", erased all linux partitions... Run chkdsk... Then I used an old Ubuntu 11.04 DVD to install and create new partitions.
My favorite scheme are: 1GB /boot primary partition, a extended partition for everything else and a "swap" partition with the size of the memory available. It worked well.
After all that, I put the Ubuntu 12.04 DVD and used an update without total erase of personal data and programs in ubuntu 11.04. It installed and worked.
Finally, I did a DVD install with update. But this time a choose a fresh install. No partioning change since the 11.04 install.
It worked fine.
I assumed then it was a partitioning problem, but I don't know what caused it.
Dual boot is working normal.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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