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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