Disaster, It actually destroy Grub, reboot went into grub rescue command, grub>
I fresh install Ubuntu 11.04 to sda4. Successful installation and boot with all grub options correctly listed. The root partition is in sda4, I test the same command, --------------------------------------------------- tbuntu@tbuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda4 /mnt [sudo] password for tbuntu: tbuntu@tbuntu:~$ sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Sector 50 is already in use by FlexNet; avoiding it. This software may cause boot or other problems in future. Please ask its authors not to store data in the boot track. Installation finished. No error reported. tbuntu@tbuntu:~$ grub-install -v grub-install (GRUB) 1.99~rc1-13ubuntu3 --------------------------------------------------- grub is destroyed, and it will go to grub rescue again ============================== How ever I used exact same command form live usb hardisk, It produce the same error tbuntu@tbuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda4 /mnt [sudo] password for tbuntu: tbuntu@tbuntu:~$ sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Sector 50 is already in use by FlexNet; avoiding it. This software may cause boot or other problems in future. Please ask its authors not to store data in the boot track. Installation finished. No error reported. ------------------------------------ But this time successful grub re installation. It may be because I am in the root partition and I should not mount /dev/sda4 or sda11 when using as root in that partition. How ever grub should not produce the same reports for the unsuccessful installation. Thank you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/730225 Title: grub-install trashes the ntfs partition that starts at sector 63 if one or more sectors in the embedding area is occupied by Adobe FlexNet To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/730225/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
