On Monday 04 December 2006 15:14, Nangus Garba wrote: > is your boot file just not mounted? > > Nangus > > On 12/4/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I somehow lost /boot on an amd64 (turion) laptop. I have an old copy > > of grub.conf, but no backup of the entire /boot dir. Since I do not > > have another amd64 system, can I just copy over most of the > > (non arch dependant files) and recreate the arch dependant files? > > The system is still booted up, so I need to make repairs before > > rebooting again. > > > > I've built a new kernel and copied it over to /boot. I've copied > > over the /boot/grub/grub.conf file from an archive. > > > > Once I copy of the non-arch_dependant files (not sure which ones > > those are) do I need to run grub again? > > > > Besides the kernel, are there any arch unique files I need to > > recreate or copy from somewhere off the net? > > > > Any ideas or guidance as to how to recover, without reinstallation > > are most appreciated.
I am not sure how things differ on a 64bit system grub, but mounting /boot and calling grub on the command line as root and running: grub> root (hdX,Y) grub> setup (hdX) grub> quit just as the guidebook says, should reinstall it all in your boot partition (on drive X). -- Regards, Mick
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