On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:35:41AM +0530, V P wrote: > On Apr 7, 2005 2:17 AM, Barry Yu <barryyupuilee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So I booted up the rescue CD again and get into recue mode; > > chroot /mnt/sysimage > > grub-install --recheck /dev/hda > > (Displayed below) > > (fd0) /dev/fd0 > > (hd0) /dev/hda > > (hd1) /dev/hdb > > > > And the I rebooted sytem, this time GRUB is reinstated and worked O.K. > > > > My question; Why GRUB was corrupted (?), why grub-install /dev/hda won't > > fix the problem but grub-install --recheck /dev/hda would? > Because grub-install is flaky and the documentation says its flaky. As I have said before when grub-install fails you fall back on: grub > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) > quit Obviously (hd0,0) might be different for you. ======================================================================= Every day it's the same thing -- variety. I want something different. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
