Could I possibly ask the person who sent the reply outlining the XP recovery
disc mbr fix info to re-post please. I accidently deleted the info and have
not been able to log onto the clug website to view archived posts.
Thanks to all who have helped so far...I'm still working through all
suggestions.
Cheers
Ralph
Quoting Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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
