I'm trying to restore Grub to boot Linux Mint 13 and Windows 7. I just installed Windows 7, which rewrote the MBR, and then I was told I could simply boot Ubuntu live cd, install boot-repair, and reinstall grub over the MBR. I went through the installation, using the option to purge the old grub, but it failed, asking me to run some terminal commands to uninstall grub. After running those commands, I clicked  the Forward button, but it said that grub was still installed.I eventually got grub installed on my MBR, and I can manually boot Windows using chainloader, but can't boot linux (it boots to initramfs and I don't know what to do from there). I see that /boot/grub/stage1 is missing, but how to I reinstall grub into my linux partition? I tried supergrubdisk (which is totally not user friendly for the record).At this point boot-repair fails, and I'm not able to uncheck the option to purge the old Grub (it's greyed out). I found this tidbit of info:Boot-Repair's Purge GRUB option can't be unticked if some GRUB executables (eg grub-install) are missing in the system you want to repair. The Purge GRUB option will download the GRUB packages from Internet and reinstall them.But it's not automatically downloading the grub packages from the internet (I do have a connection), and asking to configure my repositories for downloading grub2.Any ideas? Do I have to reformat my linux partition?
Reinstall Grub in target system
grub2