Missing ubuntu

[m4tic]

I use ubuntu and i installed windows today. The ubuntu boot loader is missing. Wat shoul i do? Sodu grub doesn't work but only grub works and after trying find /boot/grub/stage1
root (hd0,0) then
setup (hd0) no luck.
Tel me what should i do, i hav two partitions 1 ntfs and one ext3

[m4tic]

Help me

[merlinus]

Enter this command in a terminal window:



sudo fdisk -l


It will show which partition is ubuntu. Then you can reinstall grub.

[m4tic]

Thanks, let me try it out

[m4tic]

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfaa5faa5

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5965 47913831 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5966 9726 30210232+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 5966 6081 931738+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 6082 9726 29278431 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000 MB, 1000341504 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3816 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00058e65

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 3816 976880 b W95 FAT32
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$


Uhm wat should i do now?

[m4tic]

Hello

[merlinus]

First of all, patience furthers. None of us is gettting paid to help!

Try this:


sudo grub
root (hd0,5)
setup (hd0)
quit


More info here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

[m4tic]

Wow, thanks it works! U knw.. i was about to format if it wernt for u. thank u man

[merlinus]

Glad it worked! Happy ubuntuing...

[raymondh]

Glad it worked! Happy ubuntuing...

merlin ... why ho0,5 ? I Could not see it ????

[merlinus]

linux on sda6... look at result of sudo fdisk -l.

[raymondh]

linux on sda6... look at result of sudo fdisk -l.

arrggh, you're right ... I went brain dead on the linux numbering system.

"starts from 0, raymond ... from ZERO"

Thanks Merlin :)

[m4tic]

Thanks again,