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.* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]