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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

The failure of grub-install must be confirmed before this bug report can
be considered complete.

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ubuntu recovery instructions don't work
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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

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