grub gone (again) ...

Scott Talbot talbotscott at cox.net
Thu Jan 6 14:50:09 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 15:50 -0700, Max L. Eidswick wrote:
> Hi, all – I have a funny one this time.  I was testing Norton’s GoBack
> on my a31p ThinkPad (FC3 and Win XP Pro) under XP Pro and it screwed
> up my MBR somehow.  So, I lost my Grub entry (again).  
> 
> When I boot to the rescue CD, I tried the “grub-install /dev/had”
> command which worked the last time, but it returned an error.

I hope this was an error when you wrote this and you meant to say you
used /dev/hda, but could you please say what error you got?, what steps
you took to achieve a single user logon?

Scott

> 
> My configuration is that Windows is on the first drive (hda) and FC3
> is on the second drive (hdb).
> 
> Any ideas?  When I boot from the recovery CD, I can see the grub.conf
> file in the /mnt system area, but chroot doesn’t work for the grub-
> install either.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Max
> 
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