Comments on: Restoring the Grub after reinstalling Windows

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:57:26 +0000

The third method works really g8t for me..
I have latest version of Debian and Linux mint and installing Grub for mint is really a cake walk…cheers..

By: Joao

Joao — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:27:14 +0000

Hi,

I repaired successfully my HDD MBR using method 3:

1. I mounted the root partition with nautilus, as usual.
2. I issued the command
sudo grub-install –root-directory=/media/ /dev/sda

(I got the easily issuing the “ls /media” command).

3. I rebooted the PC.

4. The GRUB2 menu reappeared again.

Thank you very much, Srijith.

In fact it was very easy to repair it (I took 2 weeks googling for a solution).

Best regards,

Joao

By: Srijith R

Srijith R — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:00:19 +0000

@ert try the updated post on grub-install

By: Jeaye

Jeaye — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:04:58 +0000

Yeah, I chrooted with #2, and then installed grub with #3. It wouldn’t work unless I did #2 first. Thanks a ton for this.

By: stef

stef — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:07:28 +0000

Great!
Worked for me too – method no 2
Thanks a lot!

By: Dreian

Dreian — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:37:15 +0000

I can truly say that this (Live CD Instrutions) worked for me. The other on I tried with the chroot didn’t work because I didn’t have the root password. This, for some reason circumvented that issue and delivered as promised. (Once I stopped being lazy and followed the instructions it was a one-shot, no-hassle, 5-minute deal. Just the way I like it …..K.I.S.S.

Thanks much, best wishes to you
Dreian

By: ert

ert — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:20:07 +0000

Nothing works for me…

#1 says

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub
sudo: grub: command not found

#2 says

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda6 /mnt/root
mount: mount point /mnt/root does not exist

and #3 says

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is /dev mounted?).

By: icko

icko — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:15:16 +0000

Thanks man this help.

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By: Denny

Denny — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:23:38 +0000

With ubuntu 9.10 grub2, doing #2 above then #3 above worked perfectly!