Dual-boot setup still not working...

[J Bickhard]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Karl F. Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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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.
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>> 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.
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>>> No need for that.  Boot to Live CD.  Open a terminal.
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>        This is fine.
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>>> # mount /dev/sdaN /mnt  # where sdaN is the partition with ubuntu
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>        This is fine but how do you find the exact name of the Ubuntu partition.
Gparted on the Live CD.
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>>> # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
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>        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.

What does Man do?