No OS boot selector [Solved]

[wickedcake]

I have sabayon 4.1 64 bit installed on a separate partition of my hard drive but when I deleted my old windows XP 32 bit partition to install 64 bit XP I lost the OS selector. Now whenever I boot up it just automatically loads windows without giving me an option. Is there a way to get the OS selector back?

[kodiakmax]

There are a few ways you can do it.

here are a couple of user friendly ways.

1)Use the LiveDVD/CD run through the install gui (don't reformat anything) until you get to the grub install section and use it to reinstall grub and then quit the installer.

2) Use supergrubdisk --> http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

3) slightly more complicated -->
3a. Pop in the Live CD, boot from it until you reach the desktop.
3b. Open a terminal window or switch to a tty.
3c. Type "grub"
3d. Type "find /boot/grub/stage1". You'll get a response like "(hd0)" or in my case "(hd0,2)". Use whatever your computer spits out for the following line
3e. Type "root (hd0,2)", or whatever your harddisk + boot partition numbers are (my /boot is at /dev/sda7, which translates to hd0,6 for grub).
3f. Type "setup (hd0)", ot whatever your harddisk nr is.
3g. Quit grub by typing "quit".
3h. Reboot.

[wickedcake]

Thanks very much

[kodiakmax]

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