problem with grub? mounting local file system (failed)

[clarice oshea]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:39 PM, clarice oshea <clariceoshea at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:44 AM, pingu <no-reply-gw at fcp.surfsite.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Can you please try this?
>>
>> rescue disk
>> chroot /mnt/sysimage
>> . . . .
>>
>> grub-install --recheck --no-floppy --root-directory=/mountpoint/from/root /dev/sda
>>
>> NOTE:
>> /mountpoint/from/root ==> location where / (root) would be  mountetd
>>
>> rgds pingu
>>
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>
>
> grub-install --recheck --no-floppy --root-directory=/root /dev/sda
>
> file /root/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly
>
> I checked     /root/boot/grub and stage1 is in there
>
I tried:
rescue:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
umount sdb1
fsck /dev/sdb1

showed /boot: clean 48/50200 files 32098/200780 blocks

still shows local file system (failed)

all because I did the
>setup (hd1) instead of (hd0)