Problem with Grub on someone eles hard Drive.

[Alfred]

The person that owned the Drive, changed his mind, and wanted it wiped
so he could put Win 98SE on it. He uses the computer only to play games.
Up until recently, he was using 7.04 a lot more than Win 98SE. I don't
have a spare 20-40 Gig Hard Drive right now to put 7.10 on, so I guess
the problem is solved for now, although it would be nice to know how to
do this.

Everything you said so far is correct, except that I was not able to
make new files because I did not have the Root access from 7,04. I just
mounted that Drive, to see if it was working. The Drive that had Windows
on it did not spin-up. That's two drives Failed in one week. They don't
seem to last that long, 3 years, almost to the day! Some drives I've had
that were smaller I got seven years out of.

I solved the problem on my Confuser just a day or two earlier. The
person that owns the drive is sort of lost when he does not have a
computer, he is at a loss for what to do. I'm not sure I still have a
Windows Start Disk, to format the drive with. I had a problem with
G-parted, doing FAT 32. So It might still be Ubuntu 7.10 as this is
easier for me. I leave it to him to put Windblows on there, I don't do
that stuff!

Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with Grub on someone eles hard Drive.
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:33:00 -0500

I'm not sure that I understand your approach. You are saying that you've
attached a second drive (which had a copy of Ubuntu 7.04) to your
computer (running Ubuntu 7.10) and were able to mount it. So, you have
storage located at, say, /media/disk2. 

You are able to navigate the filesystem. You are able to open existing
files. You are able to create new files.

You then switch to /media/disk2/boot/grub and try to make changes to
menu.lst but you are unable. 

Have you checked the ownership and permissions on that file? What do
they look like?

Andrew.

On Dec 18, 2007 7:02 PM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote: 
        Hi:
        
        Yesterday, I learnt how to re-write a Grub Script on my Computer
        because
        one of my Hard drives failed, and booting up caused an Error. So
        I 
        Opened up my Terminal and did a sudo su - entered my Password.
        then I CD
        ed to /boot/grub and made the changes and then saved the changes
        that I
        made, getting rid of the lines that referred to the OS on the
        hard drive 
        that failed.
        
        Today a Hard drive in another Computer here stopped working, and
        Grub
        was Expecting to see Windows on the C Drive, but now it is not
        there. So
        the Drive that was the Slave drive is now the master Drive, and
        the 
        Slave Drive is gone. We can't load Ubuntu 7.04 on this computer
        anymore
        because there is an error at bootup. I put that Drive on my
        Computer and
        was able to get into it with my 7.10. How ever the Password for
        that 
        Drive is different than my Password. I need to be the Root for
        7.04 to
        make the changes to Grub. Problem is on my Machine I am the root
        for
        7.10, and so don't have permission to make changes to the 7.04
        Drive, 
        and then save them to the /boot/Grub/ folder in 7.04.
        
        Anyone there know how to become the r00t in 7.04 when it is
        attached to
        a 7.10 Computer? I know Passwd that is when you have lost the
        password
        allows you to gain entry as root, so that you can get a new
        password. Or 
        I could just Wipe the drive, and put 7.10 on it in this other
        Computer.
        
        Or I could try to boot from that Drive on my Computer, but I
        have
        different Video components.
        
        Any suggestions?
        
        Alfred!
        
        
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