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I have removed my MBR by mistake. Now I can't boot Ubuntu, so I want to reinstall grub.

I'm getting this error:

grub-install --boot-directory=/media/cab64688-2d97-4bbd-9f32-7bc0badb40a8/boot /dev/sdb
rm: cannot remove `/media/cab64688-2d97-4bbd-9f32-7bc0badb40a8/boot/grub/915resolution.mod': Read-only file system

So, the problem is that my existing Ubuntu partition is mounted read only. When I try:

sudo mount /dev/sdb7  /media/ubuntu_mpt
mount: block device /dev/sdb7 is write-protected, mounting read-only

So I failed to install grub since I'm in read only mode.

Any ideas?

EDIT: After apt-get install grub, I repeated the process and got:

Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Unknown partition table signature
sed: can't read /media/cab64688-2d97-4bbd-9f32-7bc0badb40a8_/boot/grub/device.map: No such file or directory
grep: /media/cab64688-2d97-4bbd-9f32-7bc0badb40a8_/boot/grub/device.map: No such file or directory
/dev/sda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
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I doubt that anyone would respond faster if you attach the word urgent in your post. If anything, they might even avoid helping in the first place. I could be wrong. – Tshepang Jun 12 '11 at 19:24
You need to mount /dev/sdb7 with read-write permissions. – fpmurphy Jun 12 '11 at 20:18
Yes, but I can't do that from live CD. I fixed it with UNetbootin ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=690912. – umpirsky Jun 12 '11 at 20:26
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What kind of storage medium is /dev/sdb? What is your partition layout (on both sda and sdb)? – Gilles Jun 12 '11 at 21:33
It's regular HDD. – umpirsky Jun 13 '11 at 16:42
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$ sudo mount /dev/sdb7  /media/ubuntu_mpt

This should be:

$ sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdb7

This will not mount it again, but change the already existing mount to rw.

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Thanks, didn't tried it, but I hope it works. – umpirsky Jun 13 '11 at 16:42

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