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and look at the various sub-forums, particularly this one:

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How has this been 'solved' since your last post?

sudo update-grub

perhaps? Or you installed grub correctly to sda or something? Just curious because I haven't got my head around chroot completely either; some of the steps are confusing...

If you installed it on a second hard drive, or your hard drive is for some recognised as sdb and you have #! installed to the third partition then yeah. You can easily examine partitions in a human readable way using 'sudo gparted'.

Use Chroot:

Assumption 1: Linux is installed on /dev/sda1 but is not accessible via grub
Assumption 2: /dev/sda1 is the root partition, and you do not have a separate boot partition
Goal: reinstall GRUB in mbr of /dev/sda:

Boot from LiveCD or USB, then in the terminal window enter:

TARGET=/media/sda1
sudo mkdir -p $TARGET
sudo mount /dev/sda1 $TARGET
sudo mount --bind /dev     $TARGET/dev
sudo mount --bind /dev/pts $TARGET/dev/pts
sudo mount --bind /proc    $TARGET/proc
sudo mount --bind /sys     $TARGET/sys
sudo chroot $TARGET /bin/bash

This places you in a root terminal on the system. Do whatever you want to do there, e.g. re-install GRUB

sudo grub-install /dev/sda
sudo update-grub

To exit from chroot: press control-D or enter exit

This brings you back to where you were in the live session and you can unmount

sudo umount -l $TARGET/dev/pts
sudo umount -l $TARGET/dev
sudo umount -l $TARGET/proc
sudo umount -l $TARGET/sys

Thats it.