Comments on: How To Restore Grub in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

By: Abhishek S.

Abhishek S. — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:15:39 +0000

Goto the wiki on grub on ubuntu.com. I think the link is wiki.ubuntu.com/grub. Refer the reinstall grub and you should be fine. I have borked my grub too multiple times!

By: EvansA

EvansA — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:35:09 +0000

Thanks for post, I am hunting for a fix.

Note "-" missing in action, else get unrecognised option.

Using: sudo grub-install -–root-directory=/mnt “path”
Using full path of /dev/sda6 in line above, I get a warning.
Attempting to install GRUB to a partition instead of the MBR. This i a BAD idea……….

using /dev/sda
I get Installation finished. No error reported, but on reboot it arrive at grub>
with no menu and no way (that newbie me knows) to get into either ubuntu or windows installed on my machine.

By: Indian Art

Indian Art — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:19:41 +0000

Thanks, I will definitely check it out.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:21:22 +0000

The 'new' GRUB is not 'colorful' or 'classy' by default. In fact it looks identical to the 'old' GRUB. You need to download the grub2-splashimages package and play around with config files to make it 'colorful' and 'classy'.

And, by the way, you can still make the 'old' GRUB 'colorful' and 'classy' too. Just download and install grub-splashimages package and tweak around with the config files. You can find step by step instructions at – https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto#Boot%…

By: Indian-Art

Indian-Art — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:39:33 +0000

I still have the old GRUB (black and white) because I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10.

I think the next upgrade will have the colorful and classy 'new' GRUB. I'm looking forward to that.