help with "grub rescue"

[Goh Lip]

On 01/10/2010 04:46 PM, uriah heep wrote:
> I had a triple boot setup with xp, win 7, and kubuntu 9.10 all on
> seperate partitions. the win 7 partition became corrupt and while in xp
> i formatted that partition in ntfs as I needed the space for work
> anyway.  upon reboot I get a grub error then the line grub rescue. ls
> reveals the 3 partitions.  What do I do to get grub to give me the
> options of xp and 9.10?  I have started reading up on grub but I am
> afraid I will screw up and I need the data for work.
>



At grub prompt type
configfile (hd0,x)/boot/grub/grub.cfg    {(hd0,x) is partition of 9.10}

When booted into 9.10, at terminal
sudo grub-install /dev/sda


Regards,
Goh Lip