Howdy, I think this is what you want: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20from%20LiveCD
I was going to suggest chroot, but I see that is the 3rd option there! Here is one more I found via google, nice and short and not terribly out of date: http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2010/06/02/how-to-chroot-to-ubuntu-using-live-cd-to-fix-grub-rescue-prompt/ Beware if your ubuntu is older it might be grub and not grub2... Ben On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > Subject: solve one problem, create another problem > From: [email protected] > Date: Mon, February 21, 2011 5:01 pm > To: [email protected] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I have my system set up as a dual boot with XP and Ubuntu. I was > able to resize, enlarge the Ubuntu partition and it looks like all of > the information is intact, but when I lost the dual boot in doing > this. XP runs, but I cannot get the dual boot to include Ubuntu. I > have a live CD for Ubuntu and when I go to reinstall I get as far as > manually installing on the correct partition but I get a message that > says that I need to specify a partition for the root file. > > No root file system is defined > Please correct this from the partitioning menu > > I have the options of > / > /boot > /home > /tmp > /usr > /var > /srv > /opt > /user/local > > and it seems that none of these options are working for me. > Where I need to install/repair the installation is /media/sda/7 > hopefully without erasing anything. > What am I missing? > > Wes Morgan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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