Lost Grub - 2

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:17 PM, flavio seixas<oivalf_nix at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> OK, I realise that the problem in which GRUB does not load turning on the machine is why Ubunto installed Grub on /dev/sda1
>
> But actually the real boot is from /dev/sdb1
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> Someone could teach me how I proceed to install GRUB on /dev/sdb1 ??
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> I think that this will solve the problem, but I do not know how to do this.
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> Thanks for any help.
>
>
> Follows the system answer:
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> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo -i
> root at ubuntu:~# fdisk -l
>
> Disco /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
> Units = cilindros of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x3b943b93
>
> Dispositivo Boot Início Fim Blocos Id Sistema
> /dev/sda1   *           1        3648    29302528+   7  HPFS ou NTFS
> /dev/sda2            3649        4865     9775552+   5  Estendida
> /dev/sda5            3649        3891     1951866   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda6            3892        4865     7823623+  83  Linux
>
> Disco /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cilindros of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x79ee79ee
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> Dispositivo Boot Início Fim Blocos Id Sistema
> /dev/sdb1   *           1        7649    61440561    7  HPFS ou NTFS
> /dev/sdb2            7650       19457    94847760    7  HPFS ou NTFS
>

Flávio,

Have you tried to set your Bios to boot from sda? If your SCSI is
bootable it's a matter of editing menu.lst to include Win or whatever
resides in sdb. Else you'll have to reinstall Grub in sdb. You might
Google for it, there are a lot of links regarding reinstalling Grub.

If nothing works you could try to make some space available at sdb,
say at the end of your Windoze, create a small partition just to place
/boot or a very lean /root, and reinstall Ubuntu. It would work for
sure. And don't forget to set an independent  /home partition.

L. - (Br-Port spoken)

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