Thanks for the reply Steve.
I have't been able to follow through with your recommendations as yet as my pC
is still experiencing un-expected power downs and freezes...so it appears that
the hard drive was not at fault as Dove diagnosed!!
I did manage to get a live Knoppix to run for a few minutes and identify some
of the partitions.
I presume the <root device> you list item 3. would be my hdc1 windows NTFS
partition?
Cheers
Ralph
Quoting Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
1. Boot off a live linux cd
2. mkdir /target
3. mount /dev/<root-device> /target
4. (if you've got a separate boot device ) mount /dev/<boot-device>
/target/boot
5. chroot /target /bin/bash
6. grub
grub> root hd(0,0) [ assuming first partition - adjust the second 0
accorgingly ]
grub> setup hd(0,0)
grub> exit
7. exit
8. init 6
Should do it. grub allows for tab completion if you are unsure where
your boot device is.
There is a grub-install command on some distros, but I still don't
trust it...
hth,
Steve
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:28:57 +1200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just had the nice guys at Dove Electronics replace a faulty hard drive
for me. In the process they upgraded from 80 to 250gb and expanded the
partitions (only the M$ ones as they were using Norton Ghost and couldn't do
anything with the Linux formatted ones).
My original hard drive used GRUB to dual boot.
Now when I turn on I first get the F2 (setup) and F12 (multiboot screen and
then it goes to a big black screen with 'GRUB' in top left corner and stops.
Clearly GRUB has lost its reference to the partitions..can anybody offer a
solution to getting it working again?
