[ale] All about GRUB

[Richard Kolkovich]

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On 07/24/06 12:11, hscast at charter.net declared:
> :::::Dumb question of the year:::::
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> Went to fix my grandson's PC who's drive had died. My system had x2 13GB HDs on primary IDE and x2 150GB SATA HDs. I had a partially destroyed SUSE 10.1 on 1st drive and Ubuntu 6.06 on second drive which I kinda screwed up by changing the MBR to the second IDE HD. No problem at the time, until my grandson's hd died. Well grandpa was going to save the day by using his first IDE drive since he really wasn't using it anyway.
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> Grandson's pc works fine now but my PC no booty, just sits there at blank screen with cursor in upper left corner. I made the physical change  of IDE 1 to IDE 0 and then editted GRUBs menu.lst reflecting that root was now on hd0,0 and the fs is /dev/hda3, but it still does not boot.
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> I think I need to reinstall GRUB, but not sure if it's necessary. There are Howtos for installing GRUB from floppy, but I do not have such an animal on my PC so are there any HowTos for CDs? Also am I correct in (I don't like to use this word, but...) assuming that GRUB is GRUB or is it unigue to distros?
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> TIA
> 
> Scott Castaline
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Do you have a liveCD of sorts?  If not, Gentoo minimal CD will do it
(small download - all you should need is a shell).  It sounds like you
just need to install grub to the MBR of the drive if you are getting
nothing resembling grub at all.

Upon booting, you will need to mount your installation's main partitions
(/, /usr, etc.), /dev and (for good measure) /proc.  Chroot to that
mountpoint.  From here, you can install grub to the MBR in the normal
fashion.

Hope this helps.  Let me (us) know if you need any more direction with
the chrooting, etc.  :)

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Richard Kolkovich
sarumont at sigil.org


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