Tuesday, August 18, 2009

make GRUB menu reappear after installing UBUNTU (having a vista installation to start with)

I had Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) installed on a 80 gigs partition on my pc beacuse i was starting to get sick of Vista but after my first reboot, the system booted vista automatically without prompting me with the boot (grub) meu at startup. I've researched this over the web and came up with the following solution:

1. Use ubuntu live cd to boot into the unix system
2. open a terminal via Accesories menu
3. type "sudo grub"
4. type "find /boot/grub/stage1" - this will return a result, in my case it was (hd0,4)
5. type "root (hd?,?)" - in my case i typed root (hd0,4)
6. type "setup (hd0)"
7. quit and reboot

have a nice day

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