Reinstall GRUB

[duragezic]

Ok so I got a 80gb drive as Primary Master with XP on it. I also have a 10gb (from an Xbox, I was kind enough to give up my 60gb for it ) for Ubuntu linux. So all was well until in a haste of trying to copy things back and forth (to put an external 120gb into the Xbox and trying to find room for everything still), when I unplug the 2nd linux-only drive, GRUB is unable to load. I made sure when I installed it that I wanted it in the MBR, but still when I unplugged the linux hard drive, it couldn't find GRUB and therefore wouldn't boot. Since I was in a rush I just put in the XP cd to recover with fixmbr since all I cared about was booting XP. But now I would like to get GRUB back so I can access my linux boot again. How would I go about doing this?

 

[duragezic]

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[CheapBastardo]

do you have the linux boot disk(floppy) when u installed Ubuntu? If you do, boot into ubuntu and install grub again. I found a good website that show you how: http://www.desktop-linux.net/grub.htm

Or you can install GRUB again from a floppy disk.

 

[GhettoFob]

I just did this over the weekend for my system, I formatted and reinstalled XP and it wiped out GRUB. I used the Gnoppix live cd, booted it up. Then I mounted my Ubuntu installation and chrooted into it. Then I ran grub-install and then update-grub. Everything seems to be working nicely now.

 

[duragezic]

So I will either have to use a live cd distro or get off my lazy ass and get a floppy drive in my rig?

 

[CheapBastardo]

i think you can use the live cd distro. Just go into ur bio and set first boot to cd-rom and it'll boot from the cd.

 

[duragezic]

Hmm it appears the Knoppix 3.7 that I got is too large to fit on a regular 700mb CDR. WTF?