The guys at Dove appeared to have found the power supply problem but not fully
fixed GRUB or the partioning / data transfer to the new expanded hard
drive...they are still trying to figure things out...but clearly they are not
linux trained.
Is there a kind soul who would be prepared to take a look at my PC at the CLUG
meeting tonight to at least try to get it to boot correctly?
If Dove are unable to fully transfer my linux data by the end of work today
does anyone know of a place / someone in town who can connect to the removed
hard drive to extract data from it? (I have the original hard drive which did
work, though Dove says it has a problem).
Cheers
Ralph
Quoting "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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?
