On Tue, July 10, 2007 2:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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
Boot from CD chroot to your linux root partition mount linux boot partition (if it is separate) run grub enter the three magic commands root (hdx,y) setup (hdx) quit x and y depend on your setup, but are easy to determine: x is the hard drive number, zero based (ie the first hard drive is 0) y is the partition where grub is stored, again zero based. If you have a separate boot partition it will be that one, if you don't it will be the root partition. This puts grub on the MBR, which is usually where you want it. > > > 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? >>>> >>>> >>>> > > > > > -- Nick Rout
