Re: MBR deleted - reinstall grub

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Christian David:
> 
> I tried to install Windows and befor it told me that
> it has a problem with my partition, it deleted the
> MBR.

Windows does not play nicely with others.

> Now I cannot start grub. All Linux files are sill
> okay. I used the debian installer CD-Rom (I am using
> sarge) to get a shell where I mounted my root
> directory. When I start grub-install with a parameter
> (e.g. hd0,0) it answers "//sbin/grub Not found."

I believe it's:

  - mount /dev/hdXN /mnt        # or /mnt/hdX.  This is / ptn.

  - cd /mnt

  - chroot .                    # note "."

  - /sbin/grub-install

  - cd

  - umount /dev/hdXN

  - reboot


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