GRUB Reinstall

[david]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 17:03 -0400, Lee McLain wrote:
> Hi all,
>       I have my laptop dual booted with XP Home and Hoary and I want
> to reinstall Windows and change it to XP Pro(I don't want to upgrade
> it, I want to reinstall.)  I know that if I do this, the XP installer
> will kill the MBR and GRUB will be gone.
>      My question is: How easy is it to reinstall GRUB and get the
> settings that I had before?
>      If there is anyone out there who has done this, please, could you
> tell me the steps to do this or maybe point me to a location to do it?
>  This is obviously an operation that I have never done before and I
> don't want to screw everything up and have to reinstall EVERYTHING!.
> 
> Thanks,
> Lee
> 

It's easy. Boot up from the Ubuntu cd. Mount the partitions, but make
sure you DO NOT FORMAT them. After you've mounted the partitions click
on Continue. The screen will get a red background and a warning appears
saying you are trying to install to an unclean target. Click Continue.
The next screen that appears is a list of stages. Jump straight to the
Install GRUB stage. Once that's done, eject the CD and use Ctrl Alt Del
to restart.

regards

nux