How to restore GRUB?

[Knute Johnson]

>Hi all,
>
>I wanna ask how to restore GRUB after installing windows vista. Cause 
>windows installation changing master boot record to its partition, 
>meanwhile the Linux is inside. So how it works then to restore the GRUB 
>thus I will have dual-boot.
>
>Thanks
>best regards
>eric

I haven't done it with Ubuntu but I have with Fedora.  Here is the 
procedure that I used for my two disk system with XP on the first 
drive and F8 on the second.  Adjust as necessary for your system.

1) Boot with rescue CD

2) Do not do the chroot

3) Run grub

4) grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 or find /grub/stage1

    Grub answers (hd1,0) or similar

5) grub> root (hd1,0)   -  set the root for grub

6) grub> setup (hd0)   -  write the MBR on the first drive

    Grub prints a bunch of stuff

7) Reboot

Do this wrong and you can have a real mess :-).

I tried to use the Ubuntu Alternate disk rescue mode but wasn't able 
to get it to work.  You can download a Fedora rescue disk if you 
don't have one, they are only about 100mb.  Go to the mirrors site, 
select a mirror close to you, and then find the 
???/releases/F8/Fedora/i386/iso directory and download the 
rescuecd.iso and burn it to a CD.

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/8/



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Knute Johnson
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