Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-22 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/22/19 1:48 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 20:25:42 +0100 Simon Hobson wrote: 2) use these incantations, lifted from a post elsewhere : mkdir /sysroot mount /dev/your-root-dev /sysroot mount /dev/your-boot-dev /sysroot/boot mount --bind /dev /sysroot/dev mount --bind /sys /s

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-22 Thread Simon Hobson
Steve Litt wrote: > Simon Hobson wrote: >> 1) use grub rescue cd (which you can put on a USB stick). Then fairly >> easy to sort out by picking the right menu options. > > Do you mean: > > * Super Grub2 Disk (https://sourceforge.net/projects/supergrub2/) > * boot-repair-disk (https://sourcefo

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-22 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 06:24:32AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > On 7/22/19 1:48 AM, Steve Litt wrote: ... I tried the chroot method, but with little luck. I'm set up for BIOS boot. My /root partion is /sdb1, and my broken out /boot partition is /dev/sdb2. So for grub-root-device I use /dev/

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2019-07-22 Thread Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky via Dng
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Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-22 Thread Simon Hobson
Haines Brown wrote: > I tried the chroot method, but with little luck. ... ># chroot /sysroot > ># grub-install /dev/sdb >bash grub-install: command not found > ># ls -la /usr/sbin | grep grub-install >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 102046 Oct 28 2018 grub-insta

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-22 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 06:24:32AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > On 7/22/19 1:48 AM, Steve Litt wrote: ... I tried the chroot method, but with little luck. I'm set up for BIOS boot. My /root partion is /sdb1, and my broken out /boot partition is /dev/sdb2. So for grub-root-device I use /dev/sd

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-22 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/22/19 12:40 PM, Haines Brown wrote: So I do ... # chroot /sysroot # grub-install /dev/sdb bash grub-install: command not found # ls -la /usr/sbin | grep grub-install -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 102046 Oct 28 2018 grub-install # /