General :: GRUB Got Re-written By The Windows Bootloader?

Feb 14, 2011

with reference to my this thread: [URL]

After installing Windows 7, the GRUB got re-written by the windows bootloader. Now after booting into the live cd and mounting /boot partition (sda2), I tried to reinstall the GRUB with this command grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda as told by this [URL]

But I got the an error which says, Are you sure /dev is mounted? then i tried the same command on the / partition (sda5) which said, cannot find boot directory, Are you sure /dev is mounted?

And installation failed, now after restarting its just a black screen with grub> prompt.

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# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
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#
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If i skip this i get the folowing message

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Checking for chroot directory content (bin
boot
Checking for binary /mnt/bin/ls... Passed
Trying to chroot... Failed

This is worth reporting a bug at url.

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My problem is:

When I boot up I get a WINDOWS bootloader first that lists:

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