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I've been trying to install some grub on my machine, running only Backtrack 5 (from Ubuntu 10.04 I think). It is newly installed. I managed to create a non-root user for it (it isn't trivial for a newbie especially on that distro). Somehow this installation (BackTrack 5 R1 KDE 32bit) doesn't come with a grub boot loader so I read a dozen of forums on "how to install grub / grub2" and try all that were marked as "working" but non of them worked for me. I am trying to accomplish this all day. So please if anyone know how install grub/grub2 in Backtrack5 please help!

P.S. Write me if you need some additional information about my configuration.

EDIT: Adding output from file - </dev/sda

maistora@bt:~$ file - </dev/sda
/dev/stdin: x86 boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3, stage2 address 0x2000, stage2 segment 0x200; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 32, startsector 2048, 102395904 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x7, starthead 254, startsector 102398310, 342521865 sectors; partition 3: ID=0x83, starthead 254, startsector 444921856, 41011200 sectors; partition 4: ID=0x82, starthead 254, startsector 485934120, 2457945 sectors, code offset 0x63, OEM-ID "      ΠΌ", Bytes/sector 190, sectors/cluster 124, reserved sectors 191, FATs 6, root entries 185, sectors 64514 (volumes <=32 MB) , Media descriptor 0xf3, sectors/FAT 20644, heads 6, hidden sectors 309755, sectors 2147991229 (volumes > 32 MB) , physical drive 0x7e, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x0)
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How is Backtrack booting? I thought it used Grub by default (like Ubuntu). What does file - </dev/sda show? – Gilles Nov 14 '11 at 1:36
Sorry for the delay. Here is the output of that command you asked. – Maistora Nov 15 '11 at 0:25
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So you have Grub. What do you want then? Is the problem that the boot menu doesn't appear by default? If so, the Ubuntu answer should work on Backtrack too. – Gilles Nov 15 '11 at 0:35

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