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I lost my capability to boot into any OS for some reason. I am dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 and I have managed to restore my Windows bootloader using a Windows repair disk.I have tried to reinstall Grub using these commands from a Ubuntu Live CD:

Code:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

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Code:

/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it..
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: if you really want blocklists, use --force.

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Code:

Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: =============================
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda
sda1: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs

[code]....

PS. I probably should mention that I edited the partitions prior to these problems, moving the extended sda3 to the left to give it some more space. The order of the partitions remained unchanged.

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