Dual-boot setup still not working...

Victor Padro vpadro at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 21:34:01 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:30 PM, J Bickhard<jbickhard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>> Jake, Editor of Micro 100 Magazine
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Derek Broughton<derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>>>> J Bickhard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
> Gparted on the Live CD.
>>
>>
>>>> # 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.
>
> What does Man do?
>
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man shows you the manual for certain package:
man apt
man apache2
man sudo
etc

in this case:
man grub

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