None of this answers your question of course. Than again, as long as you play nicely, there should never be a reason to reinstall linux. Per dd <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=132902">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=132902</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 26, 2010 1:42 PM, "shawn wilson" <<a href="http://ag4ve.us">ag4ve.us</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>> wrote: > dd's low level. That will work with any pc, no matter the boot loader. Might > also work on other architectures - dunno. Just check my syntax as dd is > pretty unforgiving to mistakes. > On Oct 26, 2010 1:33 PM, "Michael Hirsch" <<a href="mailto:mdhirsch@gmail.com">mdhirsch@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:50 AM, shawn wilson <<a href="http://ag4ve.us">ag4ve.us</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>> wrote: >>> Not sure about displays, but >>> >>> FYI, in the future, mount your partitions how they were on your running >>> system. Chroot. Ldconfig. Grub-install. Or dd if=/dev/disk >>> of=/boot/grub/stage1 bs=512 count=1 I'm not in front of a computer so > you >>> should probably confer with Google on that dd. >> >> I tried grub-install. grub-install always ended with a seg-fault and >> no change to booting. I didn't try that "dd" trick--it didn't show up >> on my searches, only the grub-install trick. Does that work with >> grub2? >> >> I have yet to see an advantage to grub2. It still feels like going >> back to the bad old days of lilo. >> >>> I also have a cron job to tar etc on a weekly basis (revision control > would >>> probably be better) fwiw >> >> I always back up /etc/ before upgrading. A cron job is probably a better > idea. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Michael >> >> -- >> kubuntu-users mailing list >> <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </div>