Is it possible to install grub into linux partition from freebsd?

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Published on 2010-03-22T12:36:59Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 12:41 UTC
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I've installed freebsd 8 with it's boot manager to the machine which had linux installed. Now linux doesn't boot because of invalid boot sector on the linux partition.

I see that freebsd has grub in ports (/usr/ports/sysutils/grub). Is it possible to utilize this port to install grub into the linux partition?

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