HI thank you community.

I run a Toshiba laptop, Celeron.
Pre-loaded with Win7,
currently multi-boot, with
Kubuntu 10.04,
Ubuntu 10.04 and
Sabayon KDE.

Grub 1.98 (Grub2)

I still have partitions to spare.

I always write Grub to /dev/sda .

The problem is, I used the Gparted CD to remove Sabayon, by method of simply re-formatting over that drive. I didn't foresee a problem.

Now, when I start that machine, it looks like Grub is about to load, then it gives me the black screen with:


The cursor just blinks at me. My machine is in a coma. Please help me, friends. How do I revive the Grub so I can access my other OS's?

Get SuperGrubDisk and boot from it into one of your *buntus. Then start a terminal and do All should be fine after this procedure.

Explanation: I assume that Sabayon was the last OS you installed. It installed its Grub to the disk, so the first part of Grub is searching for his files on the Sabayon-partition. You deleted this files, so Grub can't find them. Solution: Let an other OS install Grub.

1 members found this post helpful.

May I assume that without doing anything else, that I can just install another OS and my Grub will re-appear?

yes, it will

1 members found this post helpful.

Installing another OS that uses GRUB 2 (i.e. a Linux OS) will work by itself.

Or you can follow the instructions.

Or you can boot a live Linux CD, chroot into one of the installed systems, and repair GRUB 2 from there.

1 members found this post helpful.

Ok then, Super Grub is ready, here I go..

Sweet! All good!

Thank you folks