My system, F16, was working fine yesterday, but today refuses to boot. I
just get a flashing cursor. I'm guessing the bootloader has somehow
failed, so I googled around for this and tried several variations of:
grub2-install --boot-directory=/mnt/t /dev/sdb
which seems right: the /boot directory is mounted at /mnt/t, where I've
booted from an F16 install disk, and I've tried /dev/sda, too, and
everything else.
After this, I get a grub boot screen, sort of, if I select the right
drive in the bios boot sequence (F8), but then i get:
Error: no such device: 440025921-.....
which is the UUID of /dev/sdb2, as reported under the live CD. So it
seems as if it's not finding /dev/sdb2. And then it dumps me into:
grub rescue>
which seems wholly useless, since such things as:
ls (hd1,2)
report: no such partition, even though it's there.
Help? Short of re-installing?
Richard
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