[ale] All about GRUB

[hscast at charter.net]

:::::Dumb question of the year:::::

Went to fix my grandson's PC who's drive had died. My system had x2 13GB HDs on primary IDE and x2 150GB SATA HDs. I had a partially destroyed SUSE 10.1 on 1st drive and Ubuntu 6.06 on second drive which I kinda screwed up by changing the MBR to the second IDE HD. No problem at the time, until my grandson's hd died. Well grandpa was going to save the day by using his first IDE drive since he really wasn't using it anyway.

Grandson's pc works fine now but my PC no booty, just sits there at blank screen with cursor in upper left corner. I made the physical change  of IDE 1 to IDE 0 and then editted GRUBs menu.lst reflecting that root was now on hd0,0 and the fs is /dev/hda3, but it still does not boot.

I think I need to reinstall GRUB, but not sure if it's necessary. There are Howtos for installing GRUB from floppy, but I do not have such an animal on my PC so are there any HowTos for CDs? Also am I correct in (I don't like to use this word, but...) assuming that GRUB is GRUB or is it unigue to distros?

TIA

Scott Castaline