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Repair grub mbr and /boot using ubuntu 9.04 live CD

Repair grub mbr and /boot using ubuntu 9.04 live CD

I have broken my boot sequence on my XP/Vista/Ubuntu box. I wish to restore the system back to the way that Ubuntu 9.04 (last installed OS) had it setup. I want to do only the mbr and /boot on the ubuntu partition and leave the rest of the system alone. How can I do this using the ubuntu 9.04 live CD?

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Guest [Entry]

Follow the Ubuntu Community instructions on restoring or recovering from a boot-loader problem. Essentially, you'll have to chroot into your hard drive environment using your live CD and use grub-install to reinstall GRUB. There are multiple ways to do this as suggested by the document - choose your pick.
Guest [Entry]

"Open up a root terminal and type the following:

grub-install /dev/sda

sda being the hard drive you want to install grub onto."