Re: GRUB bootloader issue

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Mike S wrote:
> Did you mount /boot first?

umm, no, I don't recall so. I jotted down the steps I took and mounting
/boot doesn't appear in those. My method worked properly on a laptop
which had Ubuntu and WinXP and my friend has lost Grub after installing
Windows. Got grub after following the steps I listed below. In his case
however, IIRC there was no separate partition for /boot -- so this may
be necessary after all.

->HS


> 
> On 9/26/05, *H.S.* <hs.samix@gmail.com <mailto:hs.samix@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Jeremy Merritt wrote:
>     > I need help figuring out what is going on with my
>     > Debian / GRUB bootloader. Because of some Windoze
>     > issues, I had to re-install XP on my machine. It
>     > discarded the grub loader and now you can only boot to
>     > XP from hda1. I consulted with another Debian user who
> 
> 
>     Try this:
>     Booted with a Live CD and have the desktop GUI on the screen
> 
>       1. Open a terminal or a command prompt window.
>       2. Make a temporary directory somewhere where you will mount the root
>     filesystem of Linux OS you have installed on your hard disk. For
>     example,:
>          $> mkdir /tmp/rootdir
>       3. Mount the root filesystem (/) of your installed Linux OS. If your
>     root filesystem was installed in /dev/hdaX, where "X" is the numer of
>     partition of your hard disk, you will mount it as:
>          $> sudo mount /dev/hdaX
>          You may need to change the drive letter(hda or hdb or hdc ...)
>     depending where you had installed the original Linux system.
>       4. Change the root environment to your hard disk Linux system:
>          $> chroot /tmp/rootdir
>       5. Reinstall grub to the hard disk which is your first boot device.
>     Assuming /dev/hda is your first boot device, you will give the following
>     command:
>          #> grub-install /dev/hda
>       6. After the command finished and shows no errors, reboot your
>     machine (take care it does not reboot into your live CD again!).
> 
> 
>     regards,
>     ->HS
> 
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