Re: FW: Bit of an emergency!!

From: Blake Eggemeyer <i.linwin@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Dec 20 2006 - 16:32:41 AKST

i reinstalled grub from live cd, but nothing has changed, as soon a i find a
set of instructions for chroot onlline, ill try it

On 12/20/06, Blake Eggemeyer <i.linwin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i checked fstab, hba1 is root, and hda2 is swap, iml trying the live cd to
> fix grub solution
>
> On 12/19/06, James Zuelow < James_Zuelow@ci.juneau.ak.us> wrote:
> >
> > James Zuelow wrote:
> > > Blake Eggemeyer wrote:
> > >> think its 0x82, just typed the error up fast
> > >=20
> > > You mounted your HDD and retrieved your data, so you didn't
> > > accidentally reformat your partition to be swap. That's good.=20
> > >=20
> > > Is your / partition really on /dev/hda2?
> > >=20
> > > IIRC the default partition for the Debian (and Ubuntu) installer is
> > > to use /dev/hda1 for / and /dev/hda2 for swap.=20
> > >=20
> > > That would be consistent with the error you're seeing. It doesn't
> > > explain why both the grub root entry and the kernel root=3D entry =
> > would
> > > both have been changed though. If they're wrong, mount the drive,
> > > change the entries, chroot to it and run update-grub. =20
> > >=20
> > > Also if you mount the drive again, what does /etc/fstab say? You're
> > > getting a grub error so this is an outside chance, but if /etc/fstab
> > > is wrong (say it says /etc/sda2 instead of /etc/hda2) you can still
> > > boot*, but you will build unbootable initrd images. Maybe the kernel
> > > install took a peek at /etc/fstab as well. =20
> > >=20
> > > James Zuelow....................CBJ MIS (907)586-0236
> > > Network Specialist...Registered Linux User No. 186591
> > >=20
> > > *try it, it's fun! Just remember to change it back again.
> >
> > Yah, I did the same thing - didn't hit reply to all.
> >
> > James Zuelow....................CBJ MIS (907)586-0236
> > Network Specialist...Registered Linux User No. 186591
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