Boot Loader recovery

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Mon Apr 3 01:32:16 UTC 2006


M.K wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     The drive is  hdb1.
>     After finding the drive, I tried again what i did before.
> 
>     first i tried:   chroot /mnt/sysimage
>     then tried : grub-install /dev/hdb1
>     This the messages I got:
>     Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of
>     the device map  /boot/grub/device.map.
>     check if this is correct or not . if any of the lines is incorrect,
>     fix it ant re-run the script
>      ' grub-install'.
>     (fd0) dev/fdo
>     (hd0) /dev/hdb
> 

You might try installing grub to /dev/hdb - The installer usually 
installs to the master boot record instead of installing to the first 
partition.
Also the partition where grub is installer should be set to the active 
partition. If you are installing grub to hdb1, it should be marked active.

Jim

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