Boot partition wiped out - how to recreate grub's files [SOLVED]

Boot partition got wiped out on my system.
/dev/sda1 #root
/dev/sda2 #boot
/dev/sda3 #swap
/dev/sda4 #home
I'm in an ubuntu live CD and doing this via VNC. I am chrooted into /dev/sda1 (arch) and I have mounted /boot and regenerated the kernel images. There is a /boot/grub/menu.lst and a /boot/grub/system.map but that's it. If I look at my functional system (another pc) I see a ton of extra grub files:
$ ls /boot/grub
fat_stage1_5 stage1 xfs_stage1_5
ffs_stage1_5 minix_stage1_5 stage2
default iso9660_stage1_5 more.lst stage2_eltorito
device.map jfs_stage1_5 reiserfs_stage1_5 ufs2_stage1_5
e2fs_stage1_5 menu.lst splash.xpm.gz vstafs_stage1_5
How can I get them back? I thought that a pacman -S grub would do it, but nothing...??
Last edited by graysky (2010-05-16 16:51:10)

*!@* I must have read that page 3 times over and missed that 3 times over. Thank you!
EDIT: made the wiki article a little more obvious!
Last edited by graysky (2010-05-16 16:55:41)

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