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 of GRUB2 from Debian to Ubuntu. I normally install grub to > the respective partition and do an "sudo update-grub" from Debian to be able > to boot all OS's. > Normally this shouldn't be an issue at all, but i normally install and later > wipe these OS's for checking them out and don't intend to keep them. So if i > wipe the Ubuntu partition now, i will lose GRUB2 control ? or am I wrong? > How do I restore GRUB2 control to Debian? > FWIW, I don't have a separate boot partition (should have, I now realise)
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>'. The disk device is likely to be sda but you can make sure that using sudo fdisk -l. Once the Debian entries are added boot into Debian and then do grub-install from Debian. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
