Re: grub-install seems to be wiping my partitions

akonstam_at_trinity.edu
Date: 04/05/05

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    On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:13:50PM -0400, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
    > Sounds strange to you too? It does to me, here\s what\s happening...
    >
    > I recently installed win2000 at the front of my drive, knowing it
    > would mess my boot loader (grub) but expecting I could fix it, I have
    > before.
    >
    > So I threw in FC3 disk one, got to the command line chrooted to
    > /mnt/sysimage and ran grub/install hd0. Maybe that wasn\t a good idea
    > after all...
    >
    > On rebooting it seemed to work when I booted into windows so I thought
    > I\d try fc3 and rebooted. Grub Error 22, something about can\t find
    > stage1-5. So, I put FC3 Disk1 in again and ran that - this time it
    > refuses to mount the old system saying "no linux partitions found" -
    > my blood pressure rises...
    >
    > I thought "that can\t be and threw in PartitionMagic - "partition
    > Table error", So I tried Knoppix, it found two drives, one the win2000
    > partition and the other and unmountable, unrecognised section. It
    > should have found about 7.
    >
    > So, I guessed that I\d somehow lost my partitions and went looking for
    > a solution. Found TestDisk, got win2000 installed again - that being
    > the only partition I could risk playing with. Ran TestDisk, great wee
    > program, worked fine, found the 'deleted' partitions and restored them
    > - windows could see the big fat32 partition with all my non-system
    > files and things looked good. But then as I went through the process
    > of getting grub working, same as above - it did the same thing again.
    >
    > So now I\m using gmails web interface and Knoppix and hoping someonw
    > knows what's going on - I'm going to bed.
    >
    > Duncan
    One thing to try is not to use grub-install which is flaky on some
    systems and results in the error messages you report.

    Instead type the commands:
    grub
    > root (hd0,0)
    > setup (hd0)
    > quit

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