Hello Nic, On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 13:43:22 +1000, Nic Baxter <nic@nicbaxter.com.au> wrote:
Decided to press on; OK, into the live boot, and chroot...
I bravely try; grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda and I get the message..."unrecognized option `--boot-directory=/mnt/boot' " A look at grub-install options says " --root-directory=DIR", so I subsitute "root" for "boot" in the above command and get; "mkdir: cannot create directory '/mnt/boot/boot': no such file or directory" Hi Terry I think you are almost there. If you have mounted /boot on /mnt then specify root-directory=/mnt No need to put boot.
This saga must make exciting reading :-) I haven't explicitly mounted /boot on /mnt, as previous advice never mentioned this. I have established that the grub available to me was in fact Not grub2, so installed grub-pc, then ran... grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda which said there were no errors, however a reboot doesn't give a grub menu, just provides a grub prompt ie "grub>". ...almost, almost there, maybe. Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell