I was kinda surprised when my TAFE teacher told me to ask this question at the SLUG community.....Ahhh the irony - SLUG for a GRUB question.
Well my dilemma is that I bought a game a few days ago and it turns out that it will not work at all on vista. (no shock there) So I thought bugger this im going to add another partition and install a 3rd OS on my laptop - XP. Well after struggling making a new partition for a while, I was forced to shrink the primary hard drive partition that vista is on. Before I did that, I installed a program called system commander 8. I "thought" (big mistake) that it was a OS/Partition manager....WRONG It was actually a bootloader.....great Well thats how grub got shafted. Yep ok fair enough Ive been here before, so I booted up Ubuntu live and tried to reinstall grub. #grub-install - Failed #grub >root (hd0,1)...bla bla bla - Failed #mount <linux partition> #chroot /media/sdb2 #grub-install - Failed ......F***********************************!!!!!!! Ive lost the ability to boot an OS now....and the new boot loader sucks. I get a flash of an error or something for half a millisecond and then nothing. Flashing underscore at the top left. So Meh...It sucked. A little help from a linux guru I know helped me wipe the MBR on both disks, so now that stupid bootloader is gone. HOWEVER I sill cant install grub. Now I did do my research and al lof the grub install / mbr recovery tutorials are the three things that I did. So I know you guys love a challenge....Can you help us out? Specs are: Toshiba satellite a200 320gig (2x160) Vista sdb2 - Ubuntu sda2 - Vista The chroot option seems to be the best way to go, however whenever i chroot into the linux partition i only have one device in my /dev/ and thats sda. When I try to /etc/init.d/udev restart I get a couple of CP errors, and if i try again it fails. There is no /dev/.static folder for udev to read from (I assume thats what its for...) Im well aware of the complete reformat option.......but I would much rather have that as the absolute last possible option. I hate it when i have to reconfigure things back to the way i like it. Its good to know this too =D GL guys, and thanks LINUX FOREVER -- - Yamashita Masato -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
