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On 06/09/28 15:07 (GMT-0700) PerfectReign apparently typed:
On Thu, September 28, 2006 1:50 pm, clarkt@cnsp.com wrote:
You can reinstall grub by doing the following: 1) boot the install cd and select installation 2) when you get to the language screen, do alt+cntrl+f5 (takes you to a text screen) 3) mount /dev/hdax /mnt (where x is the number of the root partition)
Minor change for the newbies like me: mount /dev/sdax /mnt.
At least that's what worked for me. :)
That would be because your system has SATA instead of PATA HDs. It really gripes me that 2.6 kernels insist SATA devices are SCSI devices.
4) mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev 5) mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc 6) chroot /mnt 7) grub-install /dev/hda 8) exit 9) reboot
First thing I ran into was an error: /dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
For an SATA system, same problem. s/hda/sda/.
Googling that, told me to run: # grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
This ran about a minute then I got the message, "The file /boot/grub/stage1 does not read correctly."
Probably same problem. Check the contents of /boot/grub/device.map to find out what Grub thinks is the correct device.
Googling that found a bunch of answers which lead me to believe I need to give up and just reinstall. :P It will take less time to restore my files that way. (I did - of course - back up recently.)
Probably not quite time to give up yet. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. Esteem her, and she will exalt you; embrace her, and she will honor you." Proverbs 4:7-8 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/partitioningindex.html