Update: Well, I bit the bullet and used boot-repair to try and revive the unbootable 13.04 install. I used the instructions in the Ubuntu wiki and installed boot-repair and then ran the summary first (and it saved my life). The summary showed all my Bootit partitions with full info on start and end sectors. Encouraged by the depth of info gathered, I decided to trust boot-repair and click on the "repair" button. It went off to do some more magic and then cambe back and gave me some commands to try and run in a terminal. It turns out that grub-efi was installed whereas grub-pc was required. Yes, I have a UEFI bios but am running in legacy mode because many of the installed OSes on this hdd predate the current motherboard. The commands provided ran without issue and grub was installed to sda1 (as I selected on the configuration screen). That's when things began to go south. I should have quit at the point when I saw that grub was installed correctly to the partition of my choice. Instead, I went ahead and clicked "Forward" in the boot-repair. It promptly proceeded with hosing the mbr on both my installed hdds and very thoroughly wiped the bootit partition. Luckily for me, I still had the boot summary (see above) and used that to reconstruct my bootit partition and got back all (hopefully) my other OS partitions. I need to verify of course. Just thought I would share this information for the benefit of other lost souls who might stumble upon this page.
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