On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:42 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:

> i don't know why your mbr is getting wacked.  that's antisocial.
>

erik, just a point here. I think I mislead you. My partition got spoiled,
the mbr was fine, for I got a grub prompt (in stead of the the usual grub
screen). It must have been that grub couldn't boot the right thing.

(I'll post the outputs soon.)

-Sauparna