On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 17:03:24 +1000, Nic Baxter <[email protected]>
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
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