Serious GRUB booting problem after install Ubuntu 9.10beta for testing it.

[Goh Lip]

Tom H wrote:
>> "grub-install" and "grub-setup -d...." is done at the linux command
>> shell. Can any grub2 command be done at the >grub shell to do the same
>> function, like "root, setup" is used for grub-legacy?
> 
> grub> help
> Lists the available commands and setup is not there.
> 
> http://grub.enbug.org/CommandList says that both install and setup are
> unnecessary and root is a variable.
> 
> Could rescue mode be the reason for the unnecessary? No idea.
> 

Okay, Tom, thanks. I've been trying since intro of grub2 to find a 
'replacement' for 'root, setup' at the grub prompt. Nothing that I know 
of, so far. Will be handy like in Luis' problem without needing to boot 
into linux. My Linux experience as a beginner has been fraught with 
unbootable and blank grub starts, (causing me to reinstall, usually 
without success!) so perhaps I am 'paranoid' about unbootable systems 
(or rendered unbootable).

I always have a blank (no menu.lst) grub-legacy CD, now a blank grub2 
CD, and I've set up a 'first grub' partition that will boot any OS in 
any partition (or external drive) regardless of any failure in any OS. 
Talking about paranoid!

Thanks Tom.

Regards,
Goh Lip