Comment 22 for bug 477104

I ran "update-grub2" after system boot in terminal as root and this did not fix my problem.

Agostino Russo when I keyed "root" at the prompt I got:

(loop0): File system is ext2

As far as why I used `insmod ntfs` I have no reason for using. (is my face red?)
what I used is:

sh:grub>set root=(loop0)
sh:grub>linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=/dev/sda1 loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro
sh:grub>initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
sh:grub>boot

and it worked.