For reasons I won't get into, I had to reinstall 9.1 today. Ever since I
first discovered it more than two years ago, I've used grub exclusively
as my boot loader. During this install, as on the same machine about three
months ago, I specified grub during installation. During late installation,
the configuration step, I noticed that the boot loader had been changed back
to lilo after having specified grub earlier, and changed it again to grub.
On first boot, I was shocked to discover a graphical boot menu that looked
unlike anything I'd ever seen before on Mandrake. Eventually I learned this
was the graphical lilo, since on my /boot partition I simply copied back my
old menu.lst over the stupid one the installer applies, and found on next
boot no change.
So, I tried to run 'grub-install /dev/hda5'. To that I am greeted by the
following message:
sed: -e expression #1, char 12: Invalid reference \1 on 's' command's RHS
sed: -e expression #1, char 12: Invalid reference \1 on 's' command's RHS
Unrecognized ls output: Not found or not a block device.
So, I tried the long-winded version:
grub-install /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
only to be greeted by
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
So, I tried the grub syntax:
grub-install (0,4)
but got the following error:
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token '0,4'
Then:
grub-install 0,4
but got only a usage message.
Then:
grub-install hd0,4
but again got only a usage message.
Then:
grub-install --recheck /dev/hda5
and again got:
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
/dev/hda5 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
Then:
grub-install --root-directory=/boot '(hd0)'
and again got:
sed: -e expression #1, char 12: Invalid reference \1 on 's' command's RHS
sed: -e expression #1, char 12: Invalid reference \1 on 's' command's RHS
Unrecognized ls output: Not found or not a block device.
How do I get grub back?
FWIW, /dev/hda has 22 partitions. IIRC, it had 19 when I last installed
9.1 on it. It has 255hd, 63s, 1111cyl, & units = 16065 * 512 on a PIIX4
00:07.1 controller. A NEC ehci USB 2.0 PCI host was added since last
install.
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