Fwd: Can't seem to reinstall grub

[Mark Fraser]

On Thursday 29 November 2007 07:15:54 Nils Kassube wrote:
> 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.

Are you sure about that? My IDE drive is still mounted as /dev/hd??

$ mount
/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /home type ext3 (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)