How to rescue my Kubuntu

[varaahan]

I have kubuntu in /dev/hdb8 and was using the grub boot loader.
After changing the boot loader into XOSL my other distros are working but I could not boot kubuntu.

How to rescue it?

[Nirvana]

which distro handles the grub menu (which one provides /boot/grub/menu.lst)? Go into that distro, and edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst to include kubuntu. This way is permanent.

Quick, non-premanent fix: I believe the key "E" allows you to edit commands before booting, try to edit another linux boot line and change it to Kubuntus /dev/hda8 (hd0,7) for a quick, not-permanent fix.

[varaahan]

By default Kubuntu installs grub on the MBR of /dev/hda.
So I had been using grub of Kubuntu only and I could not edit it from other distros.

Not only that, because of my meddling with the file system, I lost my slackware,pclinuxos distros also.
Hence I reinstalled pclinux in a spare partition and moved the data from slackware,kubuntu and the earlier pclinuxos distros.

Is there any way to mount grub other than on the MBR ?

[sky]

Hi,

You should find what you're looking for in wiki, search for grub, there's a few...

Cheers