I was trying to install Karmic onto a USB drive as a full install instead of a boot CD image, and I seem to have seriously screwed up grub on my hard disk as a result.
I'm running 9.10 64 bit with grub 0.97, NOT grub2.
I tried to restore grub from the 9.04 CD using the
instructions at
help.ubuntu.com, specifically and that seemed to run without problems, but the system boots to the grub prompt.
Also tried
supergrub. Supergrub has no problem finding the installed Linux kernels and the copy of Windows I have, and it has no trouble booting to karmic. But it doesn't seem to
fix anything persistent. If I try booting the hard drive, I'm back to prompt. Booting from supergrub works fine.
Even tried reinstalling grub then running the grub-install incantation again.
My partition setup looks like this:
I'm sure this is probably simple if I knew the correct grub syntax. Can someone clue me in?