[LBo] Grub wont come up

[Goksin Akdeniz]

> I'm running Debian, the partition I used is PartitionMagic.
Hi Rafi, here is my way of system repair. I hope it works for you:

You resized partitions therefore you'd better check the partiton with a rescue 
cd.

I suggest System Rescue CD [1] for repair and rescue operations. Boot your PC 
with it. Then mount the / partition as follows:

mount -t ext3 /dev/XdaY /mnt/sysimage

XdaY is simply; X is your harddrive and Y is partition such hda1 or so

For IDE primary master is hda
For SATA primary master sda

Change root to /mnt/sysimge. Ext3 is an journalised file system and after 
partition resizing, it makes sense to check "/" partition.

e2fsck -C0 -p -f -v /dev/XdaY

Running e2fsck with options stated up, it will fix all errors if detected, run 
in verbose mode and display a status bar on the terminal.

When all is done time for GRUB reinstall. Grub has a shell. So to start grub 
shell type "grub" so grub shell will invoke. To finde stage 1 type

find /boot/grub/stage1

It will respond like XdaY, so next step is to tell grub where the / is

root (hdX,0)
setup (hdX)

This will install GRUB to your selected harddrive MBR

I hope it works.
-- 
Goksin Akdeniz

www.enixma.org
www.linuxnet.com.tr
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