Re: [tlug] Recovering from hosed GRUB-- still dead in the water

["emiddleton@example.com" <emiddleton@example.com>]

David Riggs wrote:
>
> > I tried to increase the NTFS partition on my dual-boot R50e Thinkpad
> > (Debian Sarge). I got into trouble messing around and now I get GRUB
> > Error 22 immediately.
> >
>
>
> Thanks Scot and others, but even if I chroot into the good partition
> and try to reinstall GRUB (doing a "grub-install hda"), I get the same
> error, e.g. "File /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly". I have
> already checked the grub menu spec and changed it to point to (hd0,7)
> (i.e. /mnt/hda8).
>
> So I still am dead in the water. The chroot works OK, as far as I can
> see, my own Debian system id is available and so forth. But I don't
> know how to go any further to recover boot capability to my own Debian.

Some component of grub is probably corrupted.  What I would do is use
Knoppix to chroot into Debian Sarge then *reinstall the grub package
from Debian*, then try installing grub with grub-install hda.  You
should backup the partition first because reinstalling the grub package
could cause further file system corruption.

Edward