[Linux-disciples] Re: grub hard disk error

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Hmm. Just for the record, you could also recover from this sort of thing
with knoppix. It's actually pretty simple--boot into knoppix, chroot
into your hard drive (chroot /mnt/hda1 or whatever it is), and then you
should be able to run grub-install from there (using your installed
grub). You can also use knoppix's grub with the --root-dir option.

Karl Sokol wrote:
> Never mind.  The following worked without deleting my data...
> 
> Booted up the installer and went through the motions until the partition
> manager came up.
> Opted to manually partition the drive.
>   Changed Use as to ext and configured the mount point to /
> Then chose to Finish partitioning and write changes to disk.
> Chose Yes.
> At the Not installing to unclean target error, selected Go Back and
> pressed continue on the next screen.
> Chose 'install grub'
> Got a bunch of errors
> Did it again
> Got some more (different) errors.
> Rebooted and it all worked swell.
> 
> On 8/2/05, *Karl Sokol* <revkarl at gmail.com <mailto:revkarl at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> 
>     When Windows is installed on a machine, and one begins to install
>     Suze, the partition manager nicely resizes the Windows partition to
>     just about whatever size that you want it and then installs nicely
>     beside it.  However, it does not show the same courtesy to existing
>     Linux partitions of a different distro.  Does anybody know of a
>     distro that does play nicely with others.  This may be my ticket to
>     recovering my hard drive. 
> 
>     -- 
>     Grace and Peace,
>     Karl Sokol
> 
>     "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can,
>     in all the ways you can, in all the places you can,
>     at all the times you can, to all the people you can,
>     as long as ever you can."             ---John Wesley 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Grace and Peace,
> Karl Sokol
> 
> "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can,
> in all the ways you can, in all the places you can,
> at all the times you can, to all the people you can,
> as long as ever you can."             ---John Wesley
> 
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