mindwave Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Ok, this is a fairly common issue (at least it USED to be) and at one time I knew how to resolve this without thinking about it. but gosh darn it, my machine has been running so well the last 2 years I have lost my skillz (and my notes) Something happened yesterday. Dont know what, but in the midst if a network file copy the pc shut down. reboot, find lots of HD open file errors, repaired and cant login. Well its tmie to do some other things so I get my MDV 2011.1 x64 dvd load it in and reinstall. everything goes fine until I reboot and then I get an error (the exact wording of which escapes me), but f memory serves me is about the GRUB installation not being correct. For me, its an easy mistake to make, I have 8 sata HD's installed 2 PATA's and 4 USB's so sometimes I get 'lost' Anyway, I know that there used to be a "simple" set of steps that would allow me to boot from Puppy (for example) manually edit the GRUB and then all was well/ Anyone have a list of said steps>? I dont even mind manually rebuilding the file, I just can NOT remember how. I know that "dirty" reinstals are frowned on in Linux, but really 200GB would be a lot to have to 'start over) thanks for all your suggestions. j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 mmm all things have changed now that grub2 is common, having trouble myself, having to read manuals :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 UPDATEI believe I have found the proper partitions and setup, but now aftera dirty reinstall I'm left with a prompt that says: dracut:/# and respponds to no commands I know anyone? j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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