Fixing Grub

Dist · 21 Feb 2010 at 20:59

I just formated my windows partition to upgrade from win 7 RC to win 7 ultimate, and as expected it got rid of Grub and so I couldn't boot into Ubuntu 9.10. I followed this guide to fix Grub legacy by using a 9.04 live cd (put into a USB and made bootable), the problem is, after i run the grub-install command as it says to, it still just boots into windows. Even though it says complete and no errors reported, there is a couple lines that show up that mentions something about not being able to edit device.map or something like that.

Edit: This thread can be ignored/closed now. when the guide said replace /dev/sda in the install command with where you want it installed I thought it meant replace it with /dev/sda5, I tried again with just /dev/sda and it worked.

BigglesPiP · 21 Feb 2010 at 23:02

LOL, you put grub stage 1 in the 1st sector of your partition rather than the disk.

Dist · 22 Feb 2010 at 11:06

Well the guide said to make note of the /dev/sda5 and /media/disk stuff, So i just assumed when it said to replace the /dev/sda part of the install command that it wanted me to replace it with what it told me to make note of before.

Konzul · 23 Feb 2010 at 06:51

Well its good that he found it himself and managed to fix it.

For most Windows users the pure existence of a boot loader is a concept they don't get..