Fwd: Can't seem to reinstall grub

[Nils Kassube]

Mike Leone wrote:
> So I have this Dell Inspiron 600m laptop that dual boots Windows and
> Kubuntu. Through my own stupidity, I needed to completely remake my
> Windows partition, and so of course I lost grub.
>
> So I boot with a Knoppix CD, and do this: (I booted into text mode)
>
> fdisk -l
> -> I see that /dev/hda1 is WinXP, and /dev/hda2 is Linux (with
> /dev/hda5 as swap). That's all the partitions. Pretty simple, no?

Which version of Kubuntu are you talking about? If it is Gutsy (or I think 
Feisty as well), there is no more /dev/hda but it is now /dev/sda even if 
it is really an IDE drive. If you use the Live CD of the Kubuntu version 
installed on your harddisk you can see the correct device name with your 
fdisk command.


Nils