windows overwrote boot record

[Juan Kawada]

whoops. ok, everything there in that list was in dark blue, except for
initrd.img, lib64, vmlinuz, and cdrom, which were in light blue.


On 8/21/08, Juan Kawada <juankawada at gmail.com> wrote:
> oh. and
>
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ ls /media
> bin    dev   initrd      lib32       media  proc  srv  usr
> boot   etc   initrd.img  lib64       mnt    root  sys  var
> cdrom  home  lib         lost+found  opt    sbin  tmp  vmlinuz
>
> On 8/21/08, Juan Kawada <juankawada at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
>> omitting empty partition (5)
>>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>> Disk identifier: 0x724bd9dc
>>
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sda1   *           1        6869    55175211    7  HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/sda2            6870       11778    39431542+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/sda3           11779       38913   217961887+   5  Extended
>> /dev/sda4           38162       38913     6040408+  82  Linux swap /
>> Solaris
>> /dev/sda5           11779       38161   211921384+  83  Linux
>>
>>
>> ok. I also tried this:
>> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda6 /media
>> mount: special device /dev/sda6 does not exist
>> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda5 /media
>> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media /dev/sda5
>> The file /media/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/21/08, Karl Klinger <karlok at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>> Juan Kawada wrote:
>>>> would hd0 be my boot partition?  sorry I have no idea what i'm doing
>>>> really. How do I know what my boot/root partitions are?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 8/21/08, Willy K. Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Juan Kawada wrote:
>>>>>> I just had to reinstall windows, and it overwrote the boot record, I
>>>>>> now boot to a screen that says
>>>>>>
>>>>>> windows xp home edition
>>>>>> windows xp professional
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I got into a live cd and tried this:
>>>>>> sudo grub
>>>>>> find /boot/grub/stage1
>>>>>> root (hd0,5)
>>>>>> setup (hd0)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and got:
>>>>>> grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
>>>>>>  (hd0,5)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> grub> root (hd0,5)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> grub> setup (hd0)
>>>>>>  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
>>>>>>  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
>>>>>>  Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
>>>>>>  Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  16 sectors are
>>>>>> embedded.
>>>>>> succeeded
>>>>>>  Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p
>>>>>> (hd0,5)/boot/grub/stage2
>>>>>> /boot/grub/menu.lst"... failed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Error 22: No such partition
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's wrong?  I've also tried setup (hd0,5) with similar results.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this because I'm using i'm using the 7.10 live cd on an 8.04
>>>>>> install? I'm not sure where my 8.04 disc went.
>>>>>>
>>>>> i don't think it matters, grub is the same for all versions and distros
>>>>> AFAIK.
>>>>> i'm sorry i can't be of much help, since i never used that command,
>>>>> when
>>>>> i do any reinstall/repair of windows, and the MBR gets overwritten, i
>>>>> boot the LiveCD-any *buntu LiveCD-and do the following
>>>>> mount my partition, if you have more than 1 partition, you need to
>>>>> mount
>>>>> the root partition and the boot partition, keeping their original
>>>>> directory tree, for example, if you mounted the root partition under
>>>>> /media , you should mount the boot partition under /media/boot .
>>>>> and then i issue the following command:
>>>>>
>>>>> sudo grub-install --root-directory={mount directory} /dev/{the device}
>>>>>
>>>>> mount directory=the directory you mounted your root partition at
>>>>> the device=the hard disk device you want to install grub on
>>>>>
>>>>> hope this works
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Willy K. Hamra
>>>>> Manager of Hamra Information Systems
>>>>> Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>  From your grub output it looks like your root partition is sda6 and you
>>> don't have a separate boot partition.  Thus you could:
>>>
>>> sudo mount /dev/sda6 /media
>>>
>>> At this point you could do an 'ls /media' to make sure that it contains
>>> the linux directory tree.  If all is well, do:
>>>
>>> sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media /dev/sda6
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>> p.s. I noticed on another thread that you had recently installed a
>>> second dvd drive.  I wonder if this could have confused grub and caused
>>> it to fail.
>>>
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