Hello, I had to reorganize some of my partitions, cause space requirements changed during lifetime of that machine.
I thought - not a big thing - saved backups of each partition and started repartitioning from a live system. Then I decided to change fstype from ext3 to ext4 and restored the backups. Things work fine except grub2. I was not able to reinstall grub2 to the restored system. So I installed a new debian on another partition of the same disk (beside the old root) with similar configuration. There grub2 works without problems. My old/restored root was recognized and I'm able to boot that system from grub installed to the new system. The point is - the new system should be deleted - I want to install windows to that partition. So I need to install grub2 on my restored root partition. But whatever I try - grub will not work with that partition. I copied devices.map from the fresh system and run grub-install, which seems to work, but on reboot grub hangs without showing the menue. As there's no problem booting debian from restored root, when grub is installed to the fresh installation, I guess, that the change of the fstype is no problem. When I boot from debian CD into rescue mode, selecting the recovered root as root and try to reinstall grub2 - the installer breaks, telling that it is not possible to install grub2 to that partition. Any hint, how I could recover grub2 on the restored rootfs? kind regards Gero -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201102060635.50686.geronimo...@arcor.de
