Grub not installing when Xubuntu installs

Bill Stanley bstanle at wowway.com
Tue Jun 12 20:15:54 UTC 2012


On 06/12/2012 03:56 PM, chris wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 19:39 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 12 June 2012 19:26, Bill Stanley<bstanle at wowway.com>  wrote:
>>> I am cleaning up an older computer that had before successfully dual booted.
>>>   I did a full reinstall of Windows and installed all of the patches etc.  it
> <snip>
>>
>> Is it possible in the BIOS to tell the PC to boot from  sdb instead of sda?
>>
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>
> You can run a google for the grub2 recovery disk iso, and use that to
> sort things out.
> I have used it successfully many times in a similar situation to yours.


Thanks, but I see something called a "Super Grub disk" which claims to 
do it but I am not sure.  Does this web page look right?

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

Bill Stanley




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