Re: grub-install problem -

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On 02/24/2011 03:14 AM, g wrote:
> On 02/23/2011 10:30 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>> On 23/02/11 17:08, g wrote:
> <>
>>> did you reconfigure your drive settings in they bios?
>>>
>>> interrupt boot, press<delete>  key during boot to enter bios settings.
>> I haven't been able to find anything in bios to change the order of
>> the hard drives. It's simply cdrom, floppy, hard drives.
> 
> this does not sound correct in that you may be looking in wrong place.
> 
> what brand is system?
> 
> what make and model is mainboard?
> 
> what is bios name and bios number?
> 
> ++++
> when system starts a bootup, you see screen of bios name and number.
> press <scroll lock> or <pause/break> to stop scroll to read.
> ++++
> 
> <>
>> And I can't ssh into it to copy files, have to copy manually to this
>> second computer.
> 
> get boot working, then new thread for ssh and copy problems.
> 
>> I'm using the Linux rescue on the install DVD to make changes,
>> probably have grub messed up. I have the original saved tho.
> 
> all you need with rescue dvd is at menu, mount partitions, command line;
> 
>  chroot /mnt/image
> 
>  grub-install /dev/sda

   /sbin/grub-install /dev/sda

>  reboot
> 
> *note*  if you do not have your default '/boot' and '/etc' partitions
> physically first, you will have to manually mount partitions.



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