-----Original Message----- From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:29 PM To: SuseLynuxEnglish Subject: [SLE] Grub reinstall
With SUSE 10.0/10.1 what is the correct way to reinstall grub?
I had a hardware issue trying to install SUSE 10.1 on a computer.
Now grub is not booting to a menu. I tried to re-perform the install, but it had no impact on grub's booting.
I currently have: hda1 - Win2000 boot hda5 - NTFS working drive hda6 - swap partition (garbage) hda7 - / partition (just rewritten with a fresh install) hda8 - /home (Just formatted, no users)
I can mount hda7 in rescue mode and it looks fine.
I'm trying from rescue mode to do either:
grub-install /dev/hda7
or
grub root (hd0,7) setup (hd0)
Both are failing. It seems that SUSE 10.1 does not support the above methodology anymore?
I guess I should try some older boot CDs to do the rescue from?
Thanks Greg
When you boot does the first stage of grub load? If you've got a grub config that's got all the requisite information in it (ie, the location of the /boot/ directory and all), maybe you just need to do "grub-install /dev/hda" to push the bootloader into the MBR? (I had to do this recently, and it worked fine; I booted into the rescue system, mounted the root directory and did a chroot to it, and then did `grub-install /dev/hda`. That restored the bootloader to fully working order) -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com