You're almost there. Try to mount all your partition under /mnt and run chroot # mount -t proc none /mnt/proc # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev # chroot /mnt /bin/bash # grub grub> root (hd0,1) grub> setup (hd0) Take note that in root(hd0,1) 1 is where your boot partition reside, then your /boot must be in the first partition, then it must be root(hd0,0), always subtract 1. Let us know how it goes. Cheers, Jay On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Terry Duell <tduell@iinet.net.au> wrote:
On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:41:48 +1000, Jay Amorin <jeeyessos@gmail.com> wrote:
It would be better if you have the livecd or install cd, but you can also
use other livecd as well e.g. knoppix.
root (hdx,y) setup (hdx)
x is the mbr usually points to hd0. y is the partition where your grub stage 1 is, just press the tab key to auto-complete.
OK, did a bit more research, based on what you have said, and booted live Knoppix.
ran the following commands in a terminal, with results as shown (not captured, from notes)...
sudo grub
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 error 15 file not found
grub> root (hd0,1) filesysystem type unknown, partition type 0x5
grub> setup (hd0) error 17 cannot mount selected partition
A look in /boot shows that grub/stage1 exists.
Not sure where to go from here.
Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell