On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 04:59:48AM EDT, Jordan Uggla wrote: > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Chris Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
[..] > > Would chroot'ing to the linux system on /dev/sda9 (now /dev/sda7) > > immediately after deleting the two partitions and running update-grub > > (and OS-prober) from the chroot be the best choice..? > > Yes, that would be the best choice and full instructions for doing > this are here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#ChRoot Thanks. Apologies about being unclear re: OS-prober. Shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place. For the record, I chose a simpler/safer/quicker solution: 1. booted a healthy system that lives on /dev/sdb, installed grub to both drives, and ran grub-install 2. booted off of a live CD, deleted sda5 & sda7 - sda9 became sda7. 3. rebooted off the hard drive manually changing msdos9 to msdo7 to point to the current partition 4. installed grub and ran grub-update so grub is back on my main system so-to-speak.. Only problem is that when I ran the last grub-update, OS-prober failed to detect an Ubuntu system that lives on sda. I mounted the partition and had a quick look.. saw nothing suspicious.. unmounted it and fsck'd it thinking the file system might have taken a hit. Ran update-grub again, and this time the corresponding menu entries were created.. Oh, well.. Thank you for your help. CJ -- Mooo Canada!!!! _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
