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How in gods name do you...
on: April 01, 2006, 16:04:48 PM
...reinstall grub.

I followed the long walk through in the wiki only to get nowhere. Rebooted and it booted straight into XP. :) lol.. any suggestions?
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Re:How in gods name do you...
Reply #1 on: April 01, 2006, 16:09:15 PM
If you are back in XP, you cant have overwritten the mbr properly.  

Check where you are writing to - is it to the mbr of the first hdd in the boot sequence or are you just writing to the partition that linux is installed on?
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How in gods name do you...
Reply #2 on: April 01, 2006, 16:12:14 PM
can be done with an aborted install if youre doing Ubuntu:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24113&highlight=restore+grub

or


1. Pop in the Live CD, boot from it until you reach the desktop.
2. Open a terminal window or switch to a tty.
3. Type "grub"
4. Type "root (hd0,6)", or whatever your harddisk + boot partition numbers are (my /boot is at /dev/sda7, which translates to hd0,6 for grub).
5. Type "setup (hd0)", ot whatever your harddisk nr is.
6. Quit grub by typing "quit".
7. Reboot.
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Re:How in gods name do you...
Reply #3 on: April 01, 2006, 16:13:01 PM
Quote from: TRB
If you are back in XP, you cant have overwritten the mbr properly.  

Check where you are writing to - is it to the mbr of the first hdd in the boot sequence or are you just writing to the partition that linux is installed on?


its was to the root partition of linux which is where I think it was going wrong.

About to try "super grub disk" in a mo :)
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How in gods name do you...
Reply #5 on: April 01, 2006, 16:19:08 PM
yup, there are more ways than one to skin this cat.

MeeeeoooOOOOOOOOOW!
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Re:How in gods name do you...
Reply #6 on: April 01, 2006, 16:32:34 PM
lol.. okay supergrubdisk doesnt work. lol! :D
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Re:How in gods name do you...
Reply #7 on: April 01, 2006, 17:50:09 PM
The first link max gave is the best way of doing it
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Re:How in gods name do you...
Reply #8 on: April 02, 2006, 06:11:02 AM
Sorted :)

So whats the latest and greatest about ubuntu? is Dapper ready yet? I seem to recall Max said he was installing it at some point.
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Reply #9 on: April 02, 2006, 07:18:48 AM
Ahhhh im so thankful for finally getting back into my ubuntu install. I never realised how much I missed my evolution + dual spam filtering setup.

372 emails. 364 spam. :D

All automatically filtered from 4 accounts :D

Loving it.
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