kubuntu install takes over my fc5 grub

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:21:31 -0600
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> > Boot off fedora dvd.
> > 
> > Type linux rescue, answer all the questions, might as well skip
> > mounting any partitions.
> > 
> > grub
> > root (hd0,0)
> > setup (hd0)
> > quit
> > exit  
> There are three things strange about these instructions. they are:
> 1. I am not sure but you are assuming that you can save the MBR on a
> disk without mounting it or giving the system access to the grub.conf in
> the disk. Maybe this will work but it seems strange.
> 2. I would expect to have to mount the disk with / and/or /boot on it.
> 3. Then I would expect to do chroot /mnt/sysimage

The resuce mode boot already has copies of grub and other things
in the rescue boot image, and the raw disk devices are there even
if I don't mount them. Grub only needs access to the disk device
to write the MBR, not any mounted partitions.

These instructions do assume that your original /boot partition
and all the kernel images and grub config files are still there
on whatever (hd0,0) maps too. If they've been clobbered as well,
these instructions won't help much. In that case you'll need to mount
the disks and restore them from back (you do have backups,
right? :-).