Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

Success!.

Thank you, Gary. I downloaded the 64 bit verison of the boot repair disk and it works; the 32 bit version did not.

Somehow the MBR seems to have gone out of sync with grubsdevices. It looks as if, especially when you chroot to a

mountpoint this can happen. If root is mounted on /mnt I think one has to do the following: mount /proc .mnt/proc

mount /run /mnt/run mount /sys /mnt/sys mount /dev /mnt/dev mount /dev/pts /mnt/ded/pts before doing chroot. I am not

sure of this but I found this in the aptosid manual. Somewhere along the line I did a chroot without this and this may have

been the problem, but I am npot sure.

Sebastian

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net> wrote:

On 05/23/2013 11:30 AM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:

Thank you Klaus. /dev/sda is hd0 and is the permanent hard disk. It has the MBR on which I want to install

Grub. /dev/sdb is the removable hard disk.Its first partition is, as you say, hd1,msdos1 on which grub2 is installed

under /boot/grub. After I boot into /dev/sdb1 with supergrub I run grub-instsll. I am not running any grub or grub rescue
Commands. Grub-install says installation finished. NO errors reported, the version of grub installed is 1..99 when my
system has grub 2.00-14. On booting, the order is cd, usb ( my removable harddisk is on usb, and then permanent hard disk. Maybe, as Goh says, supergrub is messing

up something, but I am mystified as to why even if there were an error, it is not overwritten by the latest grub-install.

Sebastian

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Klaus Doering <klaus.doering999@gmail.com> wrote:

On 23/05/13 00:45, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:

I meant to say /dev/sda

> set root=(hd1,msdos1)
>

Is your removable hd still attached? IIRC grub counts discs from "0",
so your "hd1" would then refer to your second hd. Do you have grub
installed on the aptosid system? What's your BIOS boot preference?
A mix-up like this could explain why when you reinstalled grub to
version 2.xx you still get reported back v 1.99 by bootinfoscript.

Klaus

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Hi all,

Well I just fixed my boot loader problem in about 15 minutes The easy way is to go to www.sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/ and download the .iso file of their boot loader repair disk. Burn a disk, stuff it in your CD/DVD player, reboot your system and sit back and watch the wheels turn. Punch the Repair button when presented. Remove the disk and reboot. Your done. This is supposed to work for a range of boot loaders. Great package.

Gary R.