On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 09:40 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 6/16/06, Andy Goss
wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 12:29 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
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 -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century
I think:
root (hd0,0) setup (hd0)
is more what you want, as it will put GRUB where the BIOS can find it. GRUB will then identify all bootables on the drive and include them in the list, with SUSE as the default. At least that is my understanding, and it has worked for me.
Andy Goss
I think that would screw up my Win2K installation on the first partition. When I actually typed in the right command "root (hd0,6)" for my system grub installed fine.
Unfortunately it still did not get to grub stage 2. Yesterday I tried installing SUSE 9.2 and 10.0 in addition to 10.1. Same results from each.
I think I will try lilo on this box.
Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century
I too have Windoze on the first partition, though I don't use it these days, and root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) did it no harm. Before trying Lilo you may find these helpful: http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/blog/saikee http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=143973 http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=144294 http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?p=837905#post837905 Andy Goss -- 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