On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Lief Hendrickson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am helping a friend with a dual boot PC that had two hard drives. The
> first HD had Windows and the boot manager. The second HD has Linux. The
> first HD failed. I removed the first HD and made the second HD the new
> master. The system previously got to Linux via the boot manager, which was
> on the other HD. It won't boot now. Can anyone tell me how to get the
> system to boot? Thanks.
Would help to know what Linux distribution.
Here are some general instructions that might have to be tweaked
depending on the details of the installation.
Boot a Knoppix CD. You should be able to see the HD partitions.
Probably the Linux root file system is /dev/hda1.
$ sudo su -
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
This will show you the partitions on hda Remember (write down) this
information, to be able to ask for more specific help if the following
steps don't work:
# mount -o dev,rw /mnt/hda1
Now you can see the file system on hda1, and verify that it is the right stuff.
# chroot /mnt/hda1 grub-install /dev/hda
This should restore the grub bootloader to the boot block of hda.
# reboot
carl
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