Howto reinstal GRUB2 with UBUNTU LTS LiveCD
Boot the LiveCD Desktop.
Open a terminal by selecting
Applications, Accessories, Terminal from the menu bar.
Determine the partition with the Ubuntu installation. The
fdisk option "-l" is a lowercase "L".
Mount the partition containing the Ubuntu installation.
sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt
Run the grub-install
command as described below. This will reinstall the GRUB 2 files on the
mounted partition to the proper location and to the MBR of the
designated device.
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdX
Example: sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
In Grub 1.99, introduced with Ubuntu 11.04, Natty Narwhal, a new switch is available which more clearly defines where the grub
folder is placed. The command above will still work with Grub 1.99, but
the following command is preferred by the developers. The target
directory in the command is the command into which the grub folder will
be installed. By default, and without the switch, the location is /boot/grub. In these instructions, since the Ubuntu partition is mounted on /mnt, the target would be /mnt/boot/grub.
sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdX
Example: sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot/ /dev/sda
Reboot
Refresh the GRUB 2 menu with sudo update-grub
