Phil Meyer wrote:
>
> Ah, yes a different reason for grub to fail -- the file system
containing its files cannot be mounted.
>
Interestingly, I just tried manually mounting the disk:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage
and I can get a directory listing. So at least *part* of this is
working. From there, I was manually able to run 'chroot /mnt/sysimage'
without error, and it seems to have "taken". However, trying to run
grub-install gave me:
/dev/sda: Not found or not a block device
Running the second option (--no-floppy --recheck) gave me:
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time
No suitable drive was found in the generated device map.
Reverting to backed up copy.
> You can:
>
> # fdisk -l
>
> to get a list of partitions and partition types. Hopefully you can
identify which ones are /boot, swap, and /
>
>
Done - no problem. There's /, /home, and swap.
> If so, a fsck of /boot and / partitions MAY fix it.
>
> # /sbin/fsck.ext3 /dev/sdN
> where N == /boot and/or the / partition
>
> If not, yes, you are probably hosed.
Running fsck.ext3 *says* that the partitions are clean. If I need to, I
guess I could get the data off of the drive and install on another, but
I was hoping to avoid that. Feh...
Thanks for your help,
-Don
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