Reinstall Jaunty on a Hardy/Jaunty Dual Boot

[frogotronic]

Hello,

I have installed Jaunty as a dual boot on my Hardy system. But I do not have an entry in GRUB with which to choose Jaunty.

Jaunty is installed on a 30GB partition on my single drive (laptop) - see GParted Screen Shot.

Q) Can I repair GRUB so that it "sees" the Jaunty install?

Q2) How do I "reinstall" Jaunty using the liveCD(?)/alternateCD(?) overtop of the existing Jaunty install?

Thanks,
CH

[presence1960]

I would do this:


1. Boot your computer up with Ubuntu CD
2. Open a terminal window or switch to a tty.
3. Type sudo grub. Should get text of which last line is grub>
4. Type "find /boot/grub/stage1". You'll get a response like "(hd0,1)".
Use whatever your computer spits out for the following lines.
5. Type "root (hd0,1)", or whatever your hard disk + boot partition
numbers are for Ubuntu.
6. Type "setup (hd0)", to install GRUB to MBR, or "setup (hd0,1)" or
whatever your hard disk + partition # is, to install GRUB to a
partition.
7. Quit grub by typing "quit".
8. Reboot and remove the bootable CD.

At # 4 you should get (hd0,0) & (hd0,1). The latter is Jaunty.
At # 5 I would use root (hd0,1)
At # 6 setup (hd0)

No need to reinstall unless after this you find jaunty is messed up. But you won't know until you get it in GRUB & try to boot it.

[frogotronic]

Hello,

Thanks for that - tried it and didn't work. I did reinstall Jaunty and it worked. I feel like an idiot for not seeing the slider that allows one to increase the Jaunty install from 2.5 GB to a much larger size. I did a reinstall and it worked.

- CH

[presence1960]

Hello,

Thanks for that - tried it and didn't work. I did reinstall Jaunty and it worked. I feel like an idiot for not seeing the slider that allows one to increase the Jaunty install from 2.5 GB to a much larger size. I did a reinstall and it worked.

- CH
We learn from our mistakes. I make enough mistakes but I look at it as a learning experience. If you play it safe you will never learn anything. You took that step into the unknown and installed a new OS. So you botched an install. Now you learned what went wrong and you fixed it. Now you know something you didn't prior to the mistake. So it was a good thing that mistake wasn't it?

[frogotronic]

yep, it was WAY easier than I was trying to make it. I couldn't believe there was a slider (it was a redesigned GUI)! Ha.

Pretty swank installer once I figured it out.

- CH ):P