Serious GRUB booting problem after install Ubuntu 9.10beta for testing it.

[Joseph Cooper]

OK, your help is much appreciated. If anyone can help with the other
questions, that would also be a great help; I have yet to try the suggestion
given as my first live CD did not appear to work so I am burning another.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:

> Joseph Cooper wrote:
> > Thank you very much for your reply Rashkae. In that case, will the Karmic
> > beta CD not be able to do this as it uses Grub 2? That's what I'm running
> > from now, it's the only live CD I have on me as I have just moved up to
> > university and made the terrible mistake of leaving my stack of live CDs
> in
> > my home country! I'm going to try booting Karmic from the flash drive I
> just
> > formatted with USB-Creator and then burning a fresh Mint CD.
> >
> > For future reference, is there something I did wrong that caused my MBR
> to
> > be overwritten? As far as I knew I wasn't touching my internal drive and
> was
> > entirely working with my external. But Ubiquity seems to have changed and
> > did the partitioning earlier than I expected which caught me out and
> > required me to backtrack.
> >
> >
>
> I doubt grub 2 will repair a Grub 1 installation.  It is more likely it
> will try to replace all the grub files with itself.  In theory, that
> should work fine, but I'm not familiar enough with Either Grub 2 or the
> Ubuntu GUI install to answer any of your questions.  I only suggested
> the easiest way for you to return to familiar footing.
>
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