[clue-tech] Help Recovering from grub-install error

[Matt Gushee]

Collins Richey wrote:

>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>/dev/hdb1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
>>/dev/hdb2              14        2368    18916537+  83  Linux
>>/dev/hdb3            2369        2498     1044225   82  Linux swap

> After reading more carefully, I believe that your grub setup was at
> fault. From the fdisk output, hdb1 is your /boot partition, and hdb2
> is your root partition.

Fdisk says no such thing; that's your guess. Given that there are only 
two Linux partitions, and that it is common practice to have a small 
/boot and a large / partition, it's a reasonable guess. Still, when 
playing with partitions and boot parameters, my inclination is to make 
very sure of all relevant information.

'mount' and /etc/fstab should tell you what you need to know.

> Please boot linux and setup grub again as
> follows and then try with your grub.conf as is ('root' or
> 'rootnoverify' for the windows stanza should make little difference.
> As root user or su or sudo:

After preparing a boot disk, of course ;-)

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Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO, USA