Dual-boot setup still not working...

[Karl F. Larsen]

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J Bickhard wrote:
> Okay, and that will put Grub into the MBR or whatever? I'll try that
> as soon as I'm near my computer again.
> 
> Jake, Editor of Micro 100 Magazine
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> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Derek Broughton<derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> J Bickhard wrote:
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>>> I think this would be the (counts on fingers) third time I've
>>> reinstalled to try to fix this.
>>>
>> No need for that.  Boot to Live CD.  Open a terminal.

	This is fine.
>>
>> # mount /dev/sdaN /mnt  # where sdaN is the partition with ubuntu

	This is fine but how do you find the exact name of the Ubuntu partition.


>> # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

	This I think is wrong. I need to look at man grub but I do not think
you can use grub-install unless your actually on the root directory. In
anycase I will try it and see what happens.


73 Karl



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