Restoring Linux Boot Menu After Install Windows XP
or
The installation CD of your or any Distro.
Way - 1:
1. Pop in the Live CD, boot from it until you reach the desktop.
2. Open a terminal window or switch to a tty.
3. Type "grub"
4. Type "root (hd0,6)", or whatever your harddisk + boot partition
numbers are (my /boot is at /dev/sda7, which translates to hd0,6 for
grub).
5. Type "setup (hd0)", ot whatever your harddisk nr is.
6. Quit grub by typing "quit".
7. Reboot.
Way -2:
1. Boot from a Live CD, like Ubuntu Live, Knoppix, Mepis, or similar.
2. Open a Terminal. Go SuperUser (that is, type "su"). Enter root passwords
as necessary.
3. Type "grub" which makes a GRUB prompt appear.
4. Type "find /boot/grub/stage1?. You'll get a response like "(hd0)" or
in my case "(hd0,3)". Use whatever your computer spits out for the
following lines.
5. Type "root (hd0,3)".
6. Type "setup (hd0)". This is key. Other instructions say to use
"(hd0)", and that's fine if you want to write GRUB to the MBR. If you
want to write it to your linux root partition, then you want the number
after the comma, such as "(hd0,3)".
7. Type "quit".
8. Restart the system. Remove the bootable CD.
Way - 3:
1. Boot with any live CD (I've done it with Knoppix 3.x and Ubuntu)
2. Get a root shell and make a folder (mkdir ubuntu)
3. mount the root (/) partition of ubuntu (e.g. mount /dev/hdb ubuntu if you
have two disks)
4. chroot the mounted partition (chroot ubuntu)
5. grub-install /dev/hda
5. Exit the shell
6. Reboot
Try any of the three ways.
There may be also so many ways to do this same thing. Try yourself and keep
learning.
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