Hi, I mounted the problematic disk with a rescue disk.
Under /mnt/custom Now when I try to run grub-install: grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/custom /dev/sda I get The file /mnt/custom/grub/boot/stage1 not read correctly On Thursday 03 July 2008 13:46:48 Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 01:26:48PM +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We encountered a grub weirdness and I can't find any reference to this > > issue on the Internet. > > > > Recipe: > > 1) Install debian via debian-installer (testing version) > > 2) Get a "standard desktop" running > > 3) Download a tar.gz of another debian-installer based system > > 4) Boot into a network-based rescue disk > > 5) untar the tar.gz into the system > > 6) Reboot > > > > From this point the grub boots and shows the prompt, Internet sites > > suggest that the /boot/grub/ directory is malformed, or missing, or > > doesn't have the configuration files - this is not true, everything is > > there :) > > > > If I "move" the /boot/ directory to /boot.backup/ prior to untaring, then > > move it back to /boot/ (replacing the one found inside the tar.gz) the > > system boots - but with a wrong kernel, obviously. > > > > Ideas? > > Did you try to reinstall grub? E.g. > grub-install /dev/sda > Do this after untarring etc. -- Noam Rathaus CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.beyondsecurity.com "Know that you are safe." Beyond Security Finalist for the "Red Herring 100 Global" Awards 2007 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
