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Grub help

Postby durian » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:02 pm

I accidentally overwrite Grub in MBR. I have manage to put Grub back to the MBR, but every time I restart my laptop, it dump me straight to the Grub command prompt. "GRUB>". I have to manually type "configfile /grub/menu.lst" to get back to the Grub menu. Please help.

I have /boot on a separate partition. I run "find /boot/grub/stage1" and setup (hd0) to get Grub back to the MBR.

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Re: Grub help

Postby LeadFingers » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:15 pm

durian wrote:I accidentally overwrite Grub in MBR. I have manage to put Grub back to the MBR, but every time I restart my laptop, it dump me straight to the Grub command prompt. "GRUB>". I have to manually type "configfile /grub/menu.lst" to get back to the Grub menu. Please help.

I have /boot on a separate partition. I run "find /boot/grub/stage1" and setup (hd0) to get Grub back to the MBR.

Thanks.

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~1.4Mb for floppy, ~300Kb for USB, ~400Kb for CD
Download the format you want, (Live CD, floppy, or USB pendrive)
Transfer or burn to whatever you're using
Make sure bios is set to boot for the format you are using
boot
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Re: Grub help

Postby DaddyX3 » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:20 pm

Or if you want to learn something.... try writing your own GRUB edits, you don't need third party software. Its really not that hard.
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Re: Grub help

Postby LeadFingers » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:56 pm

DaddyX3 wrote:Or if you want to learn something.... try writing your own GRUB edits, you don't need third party software. Its really not that hard.

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Re: Grub help

Postby durian » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:09 am

Thanks for the pointer. I manage to get Grub back on my MBR. What I don't understand is why it did not load the 'menu.lst' after startup. I have to manually enter "configfile /grub/menu.lst" and the Grub prompt.

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Re: Grub help

Postby DaddyX3 » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:14 am

durian wrote:Thanks for the pointer. I manage to get Grub back on my MBR. What I don't understand is why it did not load the 'menu.lst' after startup. I have to manually enter "configfile /grub/menu.lst" and the Grub prompt.

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So you mean that you have no items listed in the GRUB menu when you hold the esc key down when you boot?
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Re: Grub help

Postby durian » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:48 am

I don't have to hold down the 'ESC' key. It just dump me straight to the 'GRUB>' prompt. I have to manually type "configfile /grub/menu.lst" to get the menu listing back. From there, I can select any OS that is listed without problem.

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Re: Grub help

Postby DaddyX3 » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:51 am

have you messed with your startup manager? or bootup manager? I know you can adjust some grub settings in there. Something might be outta whack with one of those.
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Re: Grub help

Postby durian » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:33 pm

OK. I found the problem and was able to fixed it.

Basically when "setup (hd0)" is run, it actually expand into a few commands and one of them is the "install" command. The wrong directory was passed to the "install" command and that is the reason why it cannot find the file "menu.lst" during startup.
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Re: Grub help

Postby TheeMahn » Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:01 pm

durian wrote:OK. I found the problem and was able to fixed it.

Basically when "setup (hd0)" is run, it actually expand into a few commands and one of them is the "install" command. The wrong directory was passed to the "install" command and that is the reason why it cannot find the file "menu.lst" during startup.



Congrats on the fix, I have had similar problems I tripple boot 2 Ultimate Edition's and windows I would like to eventually have 3 Ultimate Edition's and scrap windows all together (the space for windows get to be less each time). ;)

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