windows overwrote boot record

[Juan Kawada]

ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media /dev/sda
The file /media/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.

I just don't understand whats going wrong here.

On 8/21/08, Juan Kawada <juankawada at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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