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grub problem

Asked by jags

hi,
I am new to ubuntu. recently i have installed fiesty fawn on my comp which already has win xp. the entire installation process was ok. at the end of installation process i was told to remove the cd and restart the system. when i rebooted there was no options to select from winxp or ubuntu. it directly goes to the win xp. did reinstalled 3 times. but the same problem.
why i am not getting boot options from winxp and fawn why it is directly going into the winxp.
please help.

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Amir Moulavi (amir-moulavi) said : 		#1

It's because of grub installation. You should boot up with a live CD and then if you remember the structure of your hard disk partitioning, first mount the partition which is your /:

# sudo mount /dev/hxx /mnt

Replace hxx with yours (if you don't know type "sudo fdisk -l" to find out which partition you should mount). Note that you should mount the / partition. Then chroot to it:

# sudo chroot /mnt /bin/bash

When you did successfully, then do:

# mount -t proc none /proc
# mount -t sysfs none /sys

And finally install the grub by executing:

# grub-install /dev/hxx

This will install grub to your hard disk. Then type exit to quit the chrooted environment and restart the computer.

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ex-xp64 (ex-xp64) said : 		#2

If grub-install doesn't work, then you might want to check your /boot/grub/menu.lst for errors.

try using SuperGrub CD to boot ubuntu.

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