On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 12:00 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > Send ubuntu-in mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-in digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Unable to install GRUB (Manish Sinha) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:37:10 +0530 > From: Manish Sinha <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] Unable to install GRUB > To: Ubuntu India Local Community <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Ankur Lachhiramka wrote: > > heyy no problem for that. There is a very standard process for this > > problem... > > U gota insert the Ubuntu cd again and select the option "try Ubuntu > > without making any change to ur pc" this will get in ubuntu in trail > > mode. > > then u gota start the terminal and then type some commands... > > > The commands are: > > 1) Try to mount the partition where you have installed ubuntu, hope you > know by its number, let it be sdax > > $ sudo mount /dev/sdax /mnt > > 2) chroot into this directory > > $ sudo chroot /mnt > > 3) Now open grub inside the chrooted environment > > $ grub > > 4) Try to find where GRUB is installed > > grub> find /boot/grub/stage2 > > 5) You would get some output like (hdx,y) which means GRUB is on hard > disk hdx and partition number y > > Now type the two commands > > grub> root (hdx,y) > > > grub> setup (hdx) > > And its done..... > > hdx should come to hd0 in most of the cases. Please ignore "$" and > "grub>" wen typing the commands, they are just shell and grub prompts > > Regards, > Manish > > > > ------------------------------ > Hi, there is no need to do chroot, chroot is pretty dangerous.Follow the steps from number 3, just do $sudo grub, then you get the grub terminal.The steps from there remain same.A guide is there below too[1] [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows
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