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[Elan Kugelmass <epkugelmass@xxxxxxxxx>]

Uli,

Thanks for letting me know. I'm going to open a bug report for this and
figure out what's wrong. The syntactical errors are easy to fix, but I'm
surprised that the procedure didn't work for you.

I worked off of the instructions at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows
which is up-to-date for karmic.

Elan

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Ulrich M. Tillich
<utillich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Elan,
>
> I tested the instructions for restoring GRUB from the manual alpha (I
> had to reinstall win7 anyway because the RC was about to lock up) and I
> noticed some mistakes:
>
>
> "fdisk -l" didn't show me anything unless I used sudo
>
>
> "sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/root" -> IMHO there should be a small
> sidenote telling the user to replace "sda1" with whatever partition
> fdsik told him Linux was on.
>
>
> "sudo grub-install -root-directory=/media/root /dev/sda" should be
> "sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/root /dev/sda"
>
>
> Finally the whole procedure didn't work for me. It installed Grub, but
> it didn't show a list of boot options, it gave me a command line
> interface instead. (Since I have a separate home partition anyway, and
> needed my system repaired quickly I reinstalled karmic).
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Uli
>
>
> PS: This is the first Project I have tried to help with (I have mostly
> done translations for the manual so far) so if I should have filed a bug
> report or something instead of using the mailing list I apologize.
>
>
> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 20:50 -0500, Elan Kugelmass wrote:
> > I'm watching Jamin restructure the manual now. As the writer for the
> > old chapter 9 (new chapter 8--troubleshooting and system maintenance),
> > what are my new responsibilities? Is there any new content that I must
> > produce?
> >
> >
> > Elan
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