Comments on: RECOVERING YOUR LINUX DISTRO

By: Manish

Manish — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:23:38 +0000

Thanks! I would try it out and tell you ASAP…

By: krannywidlinux

krannywidlinux — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:40:16 +0000

Hey sorry man for the test thing….ill suggest a simple method for u.get Super Grub Disk from http://adrian15.raulete.net/grub,Burn into a cdrom,Boot from it,Select Restore Grub on MBR–>Auto–>SGD has done it!
Btw ill try out maself that chroot thing n ll update you

By: Manish

Manish — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:09:11 +0000

I had heard about the chroot but didnt know how it happened… Thanks for the info. But one more problem, in grub-install /dev/sda it gives error like
“Not a Block Device”

And it isnt a test for you. I too write HOWTO’s for Linux, but this rescuing linux is the thing which has kept me banging my head for long.

And mine is a new motherboard. Bought the laptop on August,2006. Hope that problem you mentioned is not faced here.

By: krannywidlinux

krannywidlinux — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:23:36 +0000

yeah u r right (sudo mkdir ubuntu) mount the root (/) partition of ubuntu (e.g. sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hda0 ubuntu and chroot the mounted partition (chroot ubuntu) and grub-install /dev/hda [1]

Btw is this is a surprise test for me???????..or Flaming….huh….

N also check ur motherboard whether it is a old one coz old mobo’s searches for its MBR within the first 8gb of space on the HDD and if ur windows install exceeds 8gb the motherboard could not find it…..lolololzzzzzzz…….

By: Manish

Manish — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:52:50 +0000

I had edgy and everything was working perfectly, then i installed windows.
Then I booted throught the live CD, went to terminal, typed sudo grub and in grub prompt typed find /boot/grub/stage1 , got the error like “Device not Found” or “File Does not exist”.
Do I have to chroot into the live enviroment.