Grub Problems

[sauce345]

I feel like this should not be that hard but am having trouble and no real good luck on the forums. My problem is that i just cloned a hard drive containing hardy and vista on it from a small hard drive to a much larger one. I have done this many of times with windows at my work. Anyway i need to reinstall grub but cant seem to figure it out. Everything i have read says to boot to a live cd and use sudo grub method. Well my computer does not boot the live cd for some reason, i had to install using the alternate disk which was no big deal. No luck with the rescue function on the alternate either. When i get in i hit reinstall grub and it just returns me to the main menu. I tried executing a shell but could not use the commands recommended with the sudo grub method.

Anyways help!!!

[phantomgunex]

what command did you input???

[phantomgunex]

Did you configure your computer's bios to boot from the cd first???

[sauce345]

sudo grub but it did not work. from their i would of ran:

sudo grub
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
grub> find /grub/stage1

grub> root (hdX,Y)
grub> setup (hdX)
grub> quit

This is what countless other posts recomend but i am not sure what terminal i can get to that will allow me to run these commands. I cannot use the live cd.

Yes i have the bios information correct. Just simply need a straight way to get the grub to just rewrite the MBR.

[phantomgunex]

hmmm it should work... give me a moment.

[phantomgunex]

Maybe you want to try to burn another live cd

[phantomgunex]

Hey maybe you wanna try booting with knoppix and then install grub

[sauce345]

I do not think that is the problem because it has been an ongoing thing with my computer for a while and have used many different discs. Their has to be a way to do it. This is linux for goodness sakes.

[phantomgunex]

Lol i am also not that experienced with ubuntu only been using it for about 7 months...

[sauce345]

And my thread is dead.