laura_seabrook | Broken GRUB

Was trying to get my boot menu back on the Studio PC but now it seems to have disappeared in a text prompt!

When I reinstalled Win7 it wiped out something called the Master Boot Record. Normally something called GRUB runs that and provides a boot menu between Windows and Ubuntu. But of course Windows installs its own boot settings. That meant though that Ubuntu was still there, and I just had to reinstall it back. I tried following a number of procedures but instead of getting the menu back I got a GRUB prompt instead. I guess that's an improvement, but suspect that I just need to reinstall Ubuntu 11.10 again. I have no crucial bits of information in the Home partition, but it seems rather a drastic solution. Why, because the install disk I have insists on formatting the Home partition for a new install. If I did have irreplaceable dat I'd have to jump through even more hoops to save it.

In some ways Windows gets it right. Because I have my documents and images on separate partitions, all I need do is fiddle around with where the libraries point to after the install. That might be possible with Ubuntu but I bet it's not as simple. :(