On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:55:31 Rahul Jayaraman wrote:
Do you have a slave HDD by any chance? It's known to cause problems. Anyway, try this grub edit tool http://www.supergrubdisk.org/
You'll have to burn it on a CD to edit your MBR.
Err you dont edit the MBR.But you can install grub from the disk.
But ubuntu 9.10 uses grub2, which is utterly different than grub now known as grub legacy.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Mayur Pawar
samyak.mayur@gmail.com wrote:
Any help on this?..as in why its taking so long and how can i work it around?..i dont intend to reinstall the OS..
You wont have to reinstall the os. apt-get install grub should do the job WARNING: screwing around with bootloaders is always very dangerous. We wish you a happy and safe journey.
Check this too. http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/changing-the-default-boot-with-ubuntu-9...