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["Marlier, Ian" <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx]
> 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)

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