Comment 5 for bug 604253

This sounds like my problem;

Does anyone know how I might enable my boot to Ubuntu again? Here is what I have found but do not know what I should fool with. I thought I would ask before I screw it up worse.

I have Ubuntu 10.04.1 installed inside W7 effectivly creating a dual boot system. It’s been running fine for about 2 months. Now when I try to boot into Ubuntu by selecting the boot Ubuntu option, if fails and goes back to Windows Boot Manager.

There are 2 screens that flash by in about 1/2 a second when enter is pressed after the ubuntu selection. After the screens flash, it reverts again to the Boot Manager. With the help of a camera and good timing, I captured a picture of the text displayed.

The first screen displays;
Try (hd0, 0) NTFS5 No wubildr
Try (hd0, 1) NTFS5 _

The second screen displays;
error unknown command loadfont
error file not found

In the windows C: drive I find the 2 files;
C:\wubildr created 12/19/10 size 87kb
C:\wubildr.mbr created 11/7/10 size 8kb (created the date I installed Ubuntu)

In C:\ubuntu\winboot\... I find the same two files with the same size and creation dates as in the windows c: drive. In addition I also find a file,
C:\ubuntu\winboot\.wubuildr.cfg, created 11/7/10, size 2kb, described as a MS Office Outlook configuration file.

There are also a files;
C:\ubuntu\disks\boot\grub\ but the grub directory is empty. The grub directory was created 11/7/10. Should there be a file in the grub directory?

C:\ubuntu\disks\boot also contains inaccessible directories, root.disk and swap.disk.