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I have XP on the boot HD, Ubuntu 8.04 on the other
HD, and grub on the MBR of the Windows side. Then
the Windows HD went bad and I need to get grub onto
the other side so I can change the boot sequence
to what was the second HD (the Linux one) and
abandon the Windows side. Booting from a live CD
is no problem, but I can't figure how to install
grub onto the Linux side, which has been partitioned.
I know where menu.lst is, and have backups of it
as well.
Is this something that needs supergrub, or can a
simple write to the proper place be done in a
terminal window?
If switching the boot sequence is not enough (don't
see why it shouldn't be) then I can also switch the
jumper configurations on the two hard disks. But
I don't think that should be necessary.
Does Ubuntu 8.04 include the grub-install script? I seem to remember not finding this on the LiveCD or the installed system. I had to use the grub shell to restore grub.
I do remember that 8.04 already uses UUID in grub, so partition names are not an issue. You may have to grapple with grub reversing your drive order. Your hd(1,x) might become hd(0,x). It's often the case when using the BIOS to choose a 2nd HDD to boot.
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