Hello, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:35:50 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > > (...) > > > 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. > > (...) > > Maybe you can look into Rescatux (SuperGrubDisk) and try to install GRUB2 > from there. At least with GRUB Legacy, SGD always worked fine for me.
Thank you for that hint. I tried that CD, but the result did not differ from my manual tries. The point is, I have an external SATA-controller and disks change order too much times. That means, I don't have reliable device order. So I put a label on each vital partition and mount them by using the label in fstab. Works fine so far. What definitely does not work, is grub recognizing certain disk/partition. Although theres a device.map (with right identifiers for each drive), grub seem to not use it at all. Otherwise I don't understand current behaviour: Boot-drive is the first drive connected to internal controller (MB). The external controller has 3 drives connected, which means, boot-drive changes between sda and sdd. Boot-drive is configured to be the first drive (at BIOS bootdrive order). When I use the new install-CD of debian stable and boot into rescue-64bit, the root partition appears in the list as sda1 - so I select to start a commandline on that root partition. In that session, a df shows, that the root-partition is now sdd1 - so two different applications have different view to drives on the same run. Extremely strange ;) That boot-drive has 2 partitions, both containing debian squeeze with fstype ext4. The first partition is a restored image, which originated from an ext3 installation, the second partition is a fresh installation using ext4. Both installations are up-to-date. When I start with the rescue-mode from install-CD and open a session to partition2, I can install grub with "grub-install" and the system will be bootable. Doing the same with partition 1 - grub-install says "no errors" but on reboot grub hangs and is not able to start the menue - so the system is unbootable. I already tried to reinstall grub on partition 1 - but did not change anything. Is the boot-directory expected to be located on certain block, or what could be the reason of such a weired behavior? 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/201102070753.56632.geronimo...@arcor.de
