Grub not installing when Xubuntu installs

[Bill Stanley]

On 06/12/2012 04:15 PM, Bill Stanley wrote:
> On 06/12/2012 03:56 PM, chris wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 19:39 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>>> On 12 June 2012 19:26, Bill Stanley<bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
>>>> I am cleaning up an older computer that had before successfully dual
>>>> booted.
>>>> I did a full reinstall of Windows and installed all of the patches
>>>> etc. it
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Is it possible in the BIOS to tell the PC to boot from sdb instead of
>>> sda?
>>>
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>>
>> You can run a google for the grub2 recovery disk iso, and use that to
>> sort things out.
>> I have used it successfully many times in a similar situation to yours.
>
>
> Thanks, but I see something called a "Super Grub disk" which claims to
> do it but I am not sure. Does this web page look right?
>
> http://www.supergrubdisk.org/
>
> Bill Stanley
>
I tried the super grub disk but that does not seem to be the right 
choice.  It repairs an EXISTING boot setup but does not install a new one.

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Bill Stanley