On Feb 20, 2008 4:30 AM, Mitchum Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #grub-install - Failed > > #grub > >root (hd0,1)...bla bla bla > - Failed > > #mount <linux partition> > #chroot /media/sdb2 > #grub-install > ... > 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?
Did you try the find stage1 option in grub? Read this... http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/grubrestore/ > 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...) You need to bind mount your /dev directory, and perhaps others as well, in order to get them inside the chroot. $ man mount /bind > 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 Reformatting is for fools. Soon you will be able to cut through GRUB like a warrior and this will all seem quite easy for you to do in the future :-) Good luck... > GL guys, and thanks > > LINUX FOREVER Yep...heh -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- "It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
