[ubuntu-in] 9.10 overwrote grub of 8.10 - and did not place it in the revised grub - how to recover

[Onkar Shinde]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> yesterday i installed 9.10 (Karmic Koala) over a mutilboot os system
>
> I had already existing
> Ubuntu 8.10
> Ubuntu Studio 8.10
> Kubuntu 8.10
> and Win XP
>
> The fresh installation was located in the same partition as Kubuntu.
>
> However post installation my new grb only shows up
> Ubuntu 9.10
> Ubuntu Studio 8.10
>
> it has missed my Ubuntu 8.10 (my main work area) and now i have no way
> of booting back into that. Problem is not the data but the software -
> had installed tonnes of software that are not available even on the
> repo dvd's
>
> like qgis, skype, googleearth audio and video codecs.
>
> It seems two solution occcur -
> 1. Try and figure out how to reinstall grub for 8.10 and then add that
> to the now default grub
>
> 2. Find the packages in the 8.10 / and make then into an apton cd or
> something and then reinstall 8.10 and then 9.10 ??

Why are you going for so complicated solutions? All you need to do is
add correct entries to /boot/grub/grub.cfg. In grub2 this is dealt a
bit differently. Check the files in /etc/grub.d directory. Modify the
files as appropriate and then run update-grub.


Onkar