[plug] Help with grub please [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Wilkinson, Alex]

    0n Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 03:27:08PM +0800, Kev wrote: 

    >I'm in urgent need of some help with grub 1.97 (Ubuntu Karmic Netbook 
    >Remix).  I've just finished resizing my Remix partition using GParted 
    >and the PartedMagic CD.  My only way in at the mo is using a separate 
    >boot disk - in this case Super Grub Disk 2.
    >
    >
    >On a root console if I type grub I'm told that grub isn't installed.  
    >So, as per the onscreen instruction I type apt-get install grub and it 
    >does this without hesitation or error.  Still grub fails at boot time 
    >with this error message
    >
    >    GRUB loading.
    >
    >    error: file not found
    >
    >    grub rescue>_
    >
    >
    >The last line is a prompt.  At this stage I'm at a complete loss, not 
    >being a command line jockey in any way at all.  I had it in mind that 
    >grub 2 looked at the partitions at boot time and dynamically created its 
    >boot menu on the fly.  I did had EasyPeasy in sda6 and remix in sda7, 
    >with a windows partition in sda1.  I removed EasyPeasy and stretched 
    >Remix to fill the void, and I see that remix is now in sda6.  I figure 
    >that's the problem but with grub2 I'm at a loss to fix it.

apparently karmic changed from grub version 1 to grub version two. please see:
   [http://icewalkerz.blogspot.com/2009/10/ubuntu-karmic-changes-between-grub-1x.html]

  -Alex

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