[Bug 441941] Re: grub fails after running Windows

[JohnL]

I too have an HP nc6400. 
Before I read PeterF's post I tried to replace GRUB2 with GRUB which works without losing (whatever utility is provided by )HP protecttools or recovery manager. 

I went into Synaptic and marked grub 2 for deletion (I WAS worried that
grub wasn't an option) but went ahead anyway.

Unfortunately the GNU GRUB-Legacy doesn't have debs or rpms but only
source code tarballs but the source won't complile (dependency on
binutils_2.9 or later fails because Ubuntu has binutils_2.20 - the old
ASCII ordering which caused so much angst with Mandrake 8 all those
years ago is still alive and kicking)

Fortunately, after refreshing the archives grub 0.97 appeared alongside
grub 2 so the solution is


open synaptic
delete grub 2
refresh archives (if necessary to show grub)
install grub
open a terminal and type sudo update-grub

and everything works without fiddling with the HP utilities.

So far I've booted in and out of Ubuntu and Windows 3 times without
problem

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