GNU, Knoppix

[Jorge Santos]

On 4/27/05, Guido Heumann <listguido at web.de> wrote:
> Stefan Walraven schrieb:
> [...]
> > I can't choose between ubuntu or
> > windows. Linux is still on my hdd, but I can't start it any more.
> > A friend told me that I can solve it with knoppix and I have to reinstall the
> > GNU, but he doesn't know exactly how.
> > I hope some of you can help me.
> > Thanks!
> 
> Hi Stefan,
>
> the thing you have to reinstall is GRUB, not GNU (a somewhat funny
> misunderstanding ;-)
> 
> I can't tell you exactly how it works, but it's probably related to the
> commands "grub-install" and "update-grub" in combination with the config
> file /boot/grub/menu.list.
>

Want way to do it would be to boot with a bootable linux cd (e.g.
Ubuntu's) and run grub-install with the appropiate paramenters (see
man grub-install).
 
c u,
Jorge