> >> I'm new to this list and I need some help! I just ran grub-install on > >> my root partition instead of my boot partition and it appears to have > >> wreaked it.
when the old LILO bootloaded installed it used to back up the old first sector of the disk it was installing in under /boot. Hopefully GRUB does the same. I can see an interesting looking /boot/boot.b on my system which might stand for "boot block". you may be able to dd that back onto /dev/hda5 and just maybe that will work. have a look at the time stamp on /boot/boot.b and see if it looks close to when you did the grub install. there is a complicated procedure to rebuild ext2 partition tables if through mischance you trash them. (i once spent 3/4 of a day doing just this; there is a HOWTO about it that explains it pretty well) it may or may not work for Reiserfs partition tables. good luck, stuart. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
