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

["Evan Monroig" <evan.monroig@example.com>]

On 9/28/07, David Riggs <dariggs@example.com> 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).

Hi,

I hosed my boot sector not so long ago and I think (but don't remember
exactly, sorry) that I run into a similar problem.  I chrooted to the
linux partition and played with grub from there.

One important thing to check when you are inside the chroot is that
you can see your hard disk /dev/hda, if you can't it means you forgot
to mount devfs inside the chroot.

Hoping this helps,

Evan