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Background:

  • Ubuntu 14.04 dual booted with Windows 8.1
  • I was trying to install package libudev1:i386
  • apt-get was throwing a bunch of missing/broken dependencies
  • I tried aptitude install -f libudev1:i386
  • everything was going fine and dandy until aptitude uninstalled something (I'm guessing the video card driver) and desktop, dash, unity, and control bar on terminal and text editor disappeared (Firefox disappeared entirely)
  • aptitude command ran to completion, files installed, desktop and all were still missing
  • I tried ctrl+alt+f1 and tried to install gnome-tweak-tool...no success, tried to exit tty...no success
  • hard shutdown computer to reboot

Current situation:

  • after hard shutdown, Ubuntu no longer shows up on GNU GRUB menu.

Need help:

  • recovering Ubuntu partition. It should still be on my hard drive, but how can I access it and put it back in the GNU GRUB menu?

I know I committed the cardinal sin by doing a hard shutdown in a sensitive state; old habits die hard.

rakrakrakrak
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OK, perhaps the easiest thing to do is reinstall Ubuntu without reformatting the main partition. You will need to select "Something Else" in the install options menu. You will then select the partition that served as your root directory and chose it to be your root directory but DO NOT FORMAT IT! This will install Ubuntu on top of your old install, fix the GRUB menu, and will retain all your old files.

Daniel
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