[ubuntu-in] Grub2 controlling OS

2011-04-29 Thread Narendra Diwate
I have Debian Testing (LMDE actually) as my Primary OS which until today also had/controlled the boot loader GRUB2. My install today of Ubuntu 11.04 on a spare partition and an oversight took away that control of GRUB2 from Debian to Ubuntu. I normally install grub to the respective partition and

Re: [ubuntu-in] Grub2 controlling OS

2011-04-29 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.com wrote: I have Debian Testing (LMDE actually) as my Primary OS which until today also had/controlled the boot loader GRUB2. My install today of Ubuntu 11.04 on a spare partition and an oversight took away that control

Re: [ubuntu-in] Grub2 controlling OS

2011-04-29 Thread Narendra Diwate
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, if you wipe Ubuntu your machine will become unbootable. First try 'sudo update-grub' from Ubuntu. See if it adds Debian entries to /boot/grub/grub.cfg. If it doesn't then do 'sudo grub-install /dev/disk_device'.