Chroot changes the root directory of your commands. As you want the
installation to happen on your harddisc and not on the live cd.

Let us say, your first harddisc is sda, sda1 is the boot sector, windows
is sda2 and ubuntu sda3. Then you do:
sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt # Mount Ubuntu
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot # Mount your Boot Partition

sudo mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev # Give access to some important files
sudo mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
sudo mount -t proc /proc /mnt/proc
sudo cp /mnt/proc/mounts /mnt/etc/mtab
sudo chroot /mnt /bin/bash  # Chroot into the /mnt system

sudo apt-get install grub2 # Should not be nessecarry, but do it anyway
sudo grub-install /dev/sda # This should now install grub into the MBR
(try sda1 if it is not working)

If there are any errors try:
sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sdX

Then update grub for your system
sudo update-grub

Leave the system:
exit

Hope, it is clear like this, and is working. Haven’t been in need to do
this for some time.

Janosch
Am 18.06.2010 09:24, schrieb Reinier Battenberg:
> Hi Janos,
> 
> could you eleborate a bit more on
> 
>  chroot into your
> Ubuntu filesystem and reinstall grub.
> 
> i sort of lost you there, do you mean to open a shell and do
> 
>   sudo apt-get install grub
> 
> or something more funky?
> 

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