On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 14:14 -0700, John Wendel wrote: > I recently trashed a disk and I'm trying to recover. I got the partition table > rebuilt, and now I need to install GRUB. > > Following the fine info instructions, I made a GRUB boot diskette, using the > stage1 and stage2 files from an FC2 install, but when it boots, it stops > immediately with a "GEOMETRY ERROR". Do you get a "grub>" prompt? > The error message doesn't reference a disk, but I'm assuming it looked at the > repaired disk and didn't like it. Now I know the partitions are semi-bogus > (not on cylinder boundaries), but everything works (I can mount/access the > disk without errors). Does fsck show errors? How about the "v" (verify) command in fdisk? You don't say how you are mounting the partitions - presumably by booting from the rescue CD? If so, might try "chroot /mnt/sysimage" (or wherever you have "/" mounted, then "grub-install /dev/<target-for-grub>" (e.g. "grub-install /dev/hda"). Phil
