longlivethebestos
November 26th, 2008, 07:07 PM
I have a pc with a dual boot config, First I had Vista then I installed Ubuntu 8.10 everything was fine until I deleted an extra partition. I restarted only to find that Grub was corrupted..... Anyway I found this site: http://www.techrecipes.net/linux/recover-lost-corrupted-grub-mbr.html
On there it tells me what to do exactly, but I have a problem, the instructions talk as if the user has 1 partition, I have 6;
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda3
/dev/sda5
/dev/sda6 - ubuntu installation
/dev/sda7
I did what it said and mounted 'sda6'. Everything was fine until it said:
''Assuming Linux is installed in the first partition of the first harddisk, run the following actions would restore the MBR. If the the installation is done at some other partition or harddisk, change the (hd0,0) and (hd0) accordingly.''
Now I don't know what my sda6 is and I don't want to guess. So here I am running off the live CD, can anyone help me with the info that I've provided?
Help would be appreciated!!
Thanks
On there it tells me what to do exactly, but I have a problem, the instructions talk as if the user has 1 partition, I have 6;
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda3
/dev/sda5
/dev/sda6 - ubuntu installation
/dev/sda7
I did what it said and mounted 'sda6'. Everything was fine until it said:
''Assuming Linux is installed in the first partition of the first harddisk, run the following actions would restore the MBR. If the the installation is done at some other partition or harddisk, change the (hd0,0) and (hd0) accordingly.''
Now I don't know what my sda6 is and I don't want to guess. So here I am running off the live CD, can anyone help me with the info that I've provided?
Help would be appreciated!!
Thanks