Hi Andrew, <div>I Googled your issue and got lots of results giving fixes, tried them? <br><br>On Thursday, 9 January 2014, Andrew Nduati  wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">The error is &quot;<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue&gt;(on the last line)&quot;</span><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>

</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I tried some codes for trying to point it to the correct partition all to no avail...</span></div></div><div><br><br><div>
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Okechukwu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>okechukwu@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">What is the grub error - This most likely is grub pointing to the wrong partition which is easily fixable<div><br></div><div>./Ok3ch</div></div><div><div><div><br>
<br><div>On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Nduati <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>nduatiandrew@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Okay, the steps taken as of an hour ago were:<div> 1. Run linux from a flash disk</div><div><br></div><div>

 2.) Install it an gave it almost 200gig.(This brought a gurb error but after several &quot;re-installs&quot; it succeeded). I was able to boot into windows 8 and it was alright. <div>
<br></div><div>As we speak the grub error is now back and I am lost on how to solve it. I even Googled but the solutions given are quite unclear to me :)</div></div></div><div><div><div>
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On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>ndungi@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


<div dir="ltr">I&#39;d cut the chase and go with Areba&#39;s suggestion. The error message you are gettng implies you deleted (formatted) the root partition. Re-install.<br></div><div><br clear="all">

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<br><br><div>On 8 January 2014 13:01, Andrew Nduati <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>nduatiandrew@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">




<div dir="ltr">Hahaha, noticed the same :) <div><br><div><a href="http://lifehacker.com/how-to-uninstall-windows-or-linux-after-dual-booting-508710422" target="_blank">http://lifehacker.com/how-to-uninstall-windows-or-linux-after-dual-booting-508710422</a><br>






</div></div></div><div><div><div><br><br><div>On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jangita Nyagudi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>jangita.nyagudi@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>





<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">... as guys run away ... :)<div>send the link on lifehacker</div></div><div><div>
<div><br><br><div>On 7 January 2014 17:49, Andrew Nduati <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>nduatiandrew@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>







<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Alright, I&#39;ve run into another problem..<div>I googled how to uninstall linux from dual boot and used the method on Lifehacker.com. The first problem I ran into was the partition appeared as &quot;free space&quot; as opposed to &quot;unallocated&quot;, even after multiple deletes.</div>









<div>I rebooted the comp and now i have the following &quot;error: unknown filesystem(on the 1st line) grub rescue&gt;(on the last line)..</div><div>What happens now?</div><div><br></div></div><div><div>

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<br><div>On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Collins Areba <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>arebacollins@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">








<div dir="auto"><div>Or just install mint on the 300 and convert the 4gig to swap. <br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><div><div><br>On Jan 7, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Ndungi Kyalo &lt;<a>ndungi@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>








<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">It is possibe under Gparted to merge the two, but that would take you a loong time, considering the disk sizes we are talking about. Why not just delete the two partitions (which would effectively merge them to one huge &quot;unallocated</div>
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