How do I recover from a grub renaming issue?
- by Justin Ardini
I am currently dual-booting Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7 with grub 1.98 as the
bootloader.
I recently decided to edit the grub menu to remove the old Ubuntu kernels, so I followed the instructions of this guide and added the line list='version_find_latest $list' to the 10_linux file, then ran sudo update-grub. Apparently I made a mistake, because upon restart I had these bootloader entries:
Ubuntu, with Linux $list
Ubuntu, with Linux $list (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux version_find_latest
Ubuntu, with Linux version_find_latest (recovery mode)
When I try to load any of these, I get a grub error along the lines of,
Error: not a normal file
Now I can't start any version of Ubuntu to remove the line I added. What's the best course of action to be able to use Ubuntu again? Thanks.