Rescuing Kubuntu
Joe Crown
joecr at linuxmail.org
Wed May 10 22:41:37 MDT 2006
I found one possible solution. Just remember that google is your friend.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aubuntuforums.org+grub%2Bwindows%2Binstall
The last post in this thread has a possible solution.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-23519.html
Steve wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I'm having a problem doing what SHOULD be a simple straightforward
> procedure.
> A friend of mine was running Kubuntu (finally), but needed to
> re-install windows.
> While windows did not touch his secondary disk which had his full
> linux install, it did for some reason eat grub and now Linux will not
> boot.
>
> He brought the computer to me, and yep windows at his MBR installed Grub.
> I put the Kubuntu disk in and entered rescure mode, mounted /dev/hdb
> (where linux is at) and tried to reinstall grub using
> grub-install /dev/hda
>
> At this point it says it cannot find grub-install, and sure enough I
> cannot seem to find it either.
>
> Does anyone have any advice on how we can resolve this issue?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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