On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 17:03:24 +1000, Nic Baxter <nic@nicbaxter.com.au> wrote:
OK start from the beginning. The football is ordinary so I dug out the netbook and nuked the MBR. I run Mageia 3 dual boot with windows xp
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes, 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 102398309 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 102402027 312576704 105087339 5 Extended /dev/sda5 102402048 127588229 12593091 83 Linux /dev/sda6 127590400 135765314 4087457+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 135768064 312576704 88404320+ 83 Linux
Boot with usbdrive (Mageia 3 install) to rescue console.
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/
grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda
grub installed with out error and booted correctly
see how you go.
I have been using "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt " and it has been booting into "grub2>" thus far. My approach has been pretty much as you have done. Here is the result of "fdisk -l" on my LMDE system localhost grub # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0008d876 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 40962047 20480000 83 Linux /dev/sda2 40962048 229378047 94208000 5 Extended /dev/sda3 229378048 234440703 2531328 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda5 40964096 229378047 94206976 83 Linux Disk /dev/mapper/live-rw: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders, total 8388608 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/mapper/live-rw doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/mapper/live-osimg-min: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders, total 8388608 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/mapper/live-osimg-min doesn't contain a valid partition table Note that is has nothing is identified under "Boot". Does this provide any clues Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell