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venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 1,002

lost my grub

i have lost my grub boot loader after windows 7 install , here is how my hard drive looks
  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        6565    52733331    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            6566       19250   101892262+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda3           19251       60801   333758407+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5           19251       21290    16386268+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6           21291       22205     7349706   83  Linux
/dev/sda7           22206       22221      128488+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8           22222       22489     2152678+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9           22490       60801   307741108+  83  Linux

/sda5 is root 
/sda6 is VAR
/sda7 is boot

/sda1 and /sda2 are primary rest are extended ..how can i reinstall grub? I have ubuntu 8.10 live cd

thanks
P.S find /boot/grub/stage1 does not work, i am out of ideas

Last edited by venky80 (2009-07-11 03:29:05)

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Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 240

Re: lost my grub

Are you using ext4 for your boot partition? If so you need to have a livecd that has grub patched for that (like the latest arch livecd).

Otherwise just use any livecd (like the Ubuntu one) and run as root:

grub
root (hd0,6)
setup (hd0)
quit

Reboot and it should be good. You'll also want to modify your /boot/grub/menu.lst to boot windows after, but that should get your linux back up.

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venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 1,002

Re: lost my grub

Are you using ext4 for your boot partition? If so you need to have a livecd that has grub patched for that (like the latest arch livecd).

Otherwise just use any livecd (like the Ubuntu one) and run as root:

grub
root (hd0,6)
setup (hd0)
quit

Reboot and it should be good. You'll also want to modify your /boot/grub/menu.lst to boot windows after, but that should get your linux back up.

/boot is ext2 rest all linux partition are ext4

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djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

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Re: lost my grub

Just do what Statix has said to you you will like it.

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