Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >Does it use grub at all? What is often used on CD (at least, until >advent of UEFI) is syslinux.
Ah yes, that would explain it - I did say it was probably something simple ! >> Also, back in Grub 1 days, I could remember how to install grub just by >> mounting the filesystem, chrooting to it, and issuing a few grub commands. >> I've never managed to make this work with 1.99 (as currently installed with >> Debian). Is there a simple set of commands that will do what worked in grub >> 1 (going form memory here) : >> hd0 = /dev/sda >> root = (hd0,0) >> install (hd0) >> > >mkdir /sysroot >mount /dev/your-root-dev /sysroot >mount /dev/your-boot-dev /sysroot/boot >mount --bind /dev /sysroot/dev >mount --bind /sys /sysroot/sys >mount --bind /proc /sysroot/proc >mount --bind /run /sysroot/run (recommended if you are using systemd) >chroot /sysroot >grub-install /dev/your-grub-boot-device (may be grub2-install on some distro) Thanks - I'll give that a whirl in a minute. _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
