When you've got the system up with the rescue cd, what disks can your see... if you can see /dev/hdb,
can you publish the output from 'fdisk -l /dev/hdb' If you've recently preformed an upgrade, then you may need to look for /dev/sdb, not hdb. Just a thought (: Steve On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 14:12 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > Note: I've posted this on comp.os.linux.setup as well but things are a > bit slow there. > > After making some edits to my partition scheme with the latest edition > of GParted I've found that my machine > can no longer boot. > It gets as far as displaying the word GRUB but no further. > I've tried reinstalling Grub with system-rescuecd but that isn't > working either. > > If I type grub-install hd0,0 --root-directory=/mnt/hdb1 I get: > > /dev/hdb1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive > > > Using grub-install hd0,0 --root-directory=/mnt/hdb1/boot instead is > enough to make it probe BIOS drives properly but I get the error: > > The file /mnt/hdb1/boot/boot/grub/stage1 was not read correctly > > > Does someone know how to fix such problems? Or at least point me > towards some > docs that I can use to figure this out? -- Steve Holdoway <st...@greengecko.co.nz> http://www.greengecko.co.nz
