[Wolves] Hello - first post from me !

[Tim Childe]

Oh how stupid I feel this morning !! Of course it's the extended partition 
!!
What a muppet !!!!!
 I'll plead extreme tiredness !!!!!

Anyway, this idea that I may have hit hde1 instead of hde is quite likely - 
an easy typo to do.
 However, reinstalling grub won't help, I don't think, as I'm getting 
'invalid media error' from a dos boot for the partition. (It will get my 
linux back though, which is a start)
 Unless there is some sort of grub uninstall that will take it back off ??
 Anyway, must get back to teaching work !!
 Tim.C
  On 5/6/05, Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
> Just realised that this is confusing, it is now
> edited. I've removed the > symbols where I edited.
> 
> --- Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- Tim Childe <tim.childe.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Also, I can't find my edited fstab to see if the
> > > numbers have changed
> > > - the one currently in /etc/fstab isn't the one I
> > > put the exttra
> > > drives in!!!!
> 
> If you mount your Ubuntu / partition /dev/hdf1 as
> being on /mnt/hdf1 or whatever you like, the above
> file would be at /mnt/hdf1/etc/fstab as it tacks the
> hard disk on to the live CDs filesystem which is
> entirely in RAM.
> 
> > You could run grub-install again by editing
> > /mnt/hdf1/boot/grub/menu.list and then running
> >
> > /mnt/hdf1/sbin/grub-install /dev/hde
> >
> > assuming /dev/hde is the boot drive in the BIOS,
> > under
> > Windows that would contain C:\ D:\ and E:\ etc if I
> > remember your explanation correctly.
> 
> If Woo is right and he might be (Woo - yeah. Woo -
> yeah), is there a chance that you added a 1 to the end
> of grub-install /dev/hde ? Making it write to the
> Windows partition instead of the mbr? If fdisk /mbr
> still leaves a grub thingy then it's possible.
> Hopefully reinstalling grub as above will be solve
> everything. Hopefully, the errant grub on /dev/hde1
> will not have affected the Windows installation. If it
> has, I don't know what to do about that, other than to
> say, get your stuff off the disk, reinstall Windows
> and reinstall grub as above. Don't do this until there
> are not other options.
> 
> Oh, yes I forgot, for some reason that Other Operating
> Systems line counts as a grub entry. I'd forgotten all
> about that I only had to deal with it once. Sorry, but
> you figured that out yourself and it doesn't break
> anything if you get it wrong and then change it.
> 
> > Getting there ;)
> 
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Tim.C
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