Grub Troubles

[Acid_1]

Ya, so I installed Mint, and then decided I'd try Ubuntu 8.40 alpha 5. So I partitioned my hd and gave 30gigs to Mint 25 to an ext3 system (to share data between os's) and 8 for Ubuntu. I decided I didn't like how a) Ubuntu works and b) the fact that I mounted my extra space into Ubuntu's /home. So, I rebooted, went into Mint and opened gparted. Then I deleted the Ubuntu and Ext3 partition that I had, and made it into one large ext3 partition. I then decided that I should reboot to see if I could get back into Mint. I had a feeling I couldn't, and I was right. Now, I think it's just cause Ubuntu's grub cannot be found, and I don't know how to make Mint grub to work again. So, any help would be nice

[Acid_1]

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Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0f4738c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        3648    29302528+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            7172        7296     1004062+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3            3649        7171    28298497+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order


That's the output for sudo fdisk -l

[Nibes]

Hello.

how about a new fresh reinstall of Mint?

I also heard about a program to restore Grub menu. Super Grub.
http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/?section=download

Give it a look and perhaps try it. I don't have any experience with it, because I decided to reinstall Mint when I loose my grub menu while resizing windows partition.

I hope it helps.

[Zwopper]

I agree wiyh Nibes, SuperGrub has helped me many times, but now I'm staying!

[Acid_1]

I'll try supergrub. I don't want to do a fresh install cause I only installed Mint a couple of days ago, and spent close to 14 hours of the last 48 tweaking it.