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By: Zane

Zane — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:12:13 +0000

Hmmm I thought that it is impossible to restore your grub without reinstalling you Linux.

By: thegoutap

thegoutap — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:09:25 +0000

yup its great……

but many have the prob with stage1 not being found

i.e $find /boot/grub/stage1
gives an error of not found or so..

in this case we need to mount the boot
here’s it is ..coz i faced the same prob

then type the following using a live cd of ubuntu or any..and in terminal

use sudo whereever needed
mkdir /mnt/orange/
mount /dev/XXX? /mnt/orange (XXX i.e.sda1..)
chroot /mnt/orange /bin/bash
grub-install /dev/XXX (XXX i.e . hd0)

By: Methos

Methos — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:49:33 +0000

I also have WinXP and Ubuntu. I haven’t blown away my MBR, but we all now Win needs to re-install from scracth from time to time when it starts to get slower.

Great post. Thanks a lot.

By: mohammed

mohammed — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:41:38 +0000

cool thanx very much ,that was helpful

By: Alberto Riomao

Alberto Riomao — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:06:03 +0000

God bless you! This “find /boot/grub/stage1″ command saved my neck.

Thank you!

By: ikecomp

ikecomp — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:38:27 +0000

@hans57sauc, thank you so much for posting those steps. I had scoured the internet for hours trying to correct this issue and your steps worked perfectly. I also want to thank the original poster as well for making this information available

Thanks again

By: mufn8r

mufn8r — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:07:47 +0000

It worked flawlessly!

Thank you to the OP, ArsGeek.

By: paul

paul — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:58:15 +0000

Thanks a lot! You saved my life

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By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:22:13 +0000

I just want to ask… why in the world would you install vista in the first place?

By: trfsdf

trfsdf — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:16:25 +0000

@Ahmed

It appears this trick no longer works with Feisty. We’ll have to look for a work-around.

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:58:03 +0000

Hallo,

I followed the following steps;

boot live cd
open terminal
type `sudo grub’
type `find /boot/grub/stage1?

After this step I got;

Error 15 : File not found

I tried to reinstall the Kubuntu or even Ubuntu system again but I am getting the same error, SQUASHFS error, I am even not able to access the WindowsXP .

Can anyone help, please.

Thanks in advance.

Ahmed.

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By: hans57sauc

hans57sauc — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:21:56 +0000

works perfectly. took 5 minutes:
boot live cd
open terminal
type `sudo grub’
type `find /boot/grub/stage1′
(hd0,2)
type `root (hd0,2)
type `setup (hd0)
type `quit’
type `exit’
reboot and presto!

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By: Franklin

Franklin — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:45:05 +0000

Make sure you’re root before you type “grub”

So its..

# sudo -i
# grub
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
grub> root (what ever it printed out)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

By: Gerard

Gerard — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:58:26 +0000

What a great article. This is just what I needed after reinstalling WinXP on my dual-boot system.

Just one thing: you should point out that the hd0 in the root command is not the same as in the setup command. e.g. on my machine Ubuntu is on sd1 and Windows on sd0. I blindly used “setup (sd1)” before realising it should always be “setup (sd0)”.

Regards,
Gerard.

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By: Curtis

Curtis — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:10:23 +0000

This even worked using a dapper install cd on an edgy install. I didn’t know about the ‘find’ command before, and now I am a happy camper!

Thanks!!

By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:20:57 +0000

Hey Pavel,

Sounds like Grub may be pointing to either the incorrect file system, or to a file system that no longer exists.

Did you happen to install Kubuntu on a FAT partition? Perhaps grub got a little confused. What’s your output from fdisk -l look like?

By: Pavel

Pavel — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:11:54 +0000

Hello!

I’ve tried exactly the above (also got (hd0,2) ), and the grub indeed came back.
Windows loads great, but loading kubuntu fails with the following error:

root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is fat, partition type is 0xC
kernel /boot/vmli…. root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash
Error 15: File not found

Can you please help?

Thanx!