Grub is lost

[Chris Mohler]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:26 PM, hamideh jafarpoor
<hamideh_jafarpoor at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  I have recovered my laptop computer Toshiba satellite A100 using the recovery disk and I wanted it to preserve the partitions. On the first partition I had XP and the second one I had Ubuntu 8.0.4.
>  Now I don't have access to my linux os! :( There is no grub loading at the start up the computer. What should I do? All my work and documents are in the second partition working with ubuntu!

see here - 2nd answer:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-24113.html

or just search for 'restore grub', 'restore grub ubuntu', etc.  Unless
you formatted your ubuntu partition, it should be pretty easy to
reinstall grub.

Chris