> Recovering would normally be as simple as putting in manual boot details > (the root, kernel and initrd commands), booting, and then running > grub-install to update grub.
Not so simple for me as I have only a vague idea of what I'm doing. From my grub boot floppy, I get as far as the first step grub> root (hd0,0) and get: Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83 I presume this is an error report. Is there any other way of repairing grub? Or what else can I do?? Thanks Peter On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:15:13 +1100 Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 18:37, Michael Kraus wrote: > > G'day... > > > > Ahh, well, afaik (this was true for LILO anyway), the boot loader doesn't > > actually reference a file by the filename, but rather the size and offset of > > the file on the drive. > > grub understands the file system. So grub can handle disk > defragmentation, partition resizing etc all just fine - as long as > partition order and #'s don't change. > > The break of grub on the origin drive is the key: it means that grub was > already broken, or broken during the image process. Or, if the partition > #'s changed (say a primary becoming an extended) it would break things, > as grub references fields relative to the parition. > > As to what could break grub, if the /boot partition (the 'install > location of grub') changes, then the installed info for grub will be > incorrect, and grub won't be able to read menu.lst, which is the list of > what to boot. > > Recovering would normally be as simple as putting in manual boot details > (the root, kernel and initrd commands), booting, and then running > grub-install to update grub. > > Rob > -- > GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>. Peter Vogel ZapTV Pty Ltd 30 Adeline St, Faulconbridge 2776 Australia Tel: 02 4751 8735 Fax: 02 4751 2601 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
