mindwave 0 Report post 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paul 9 Report post Posted September 13, 2011 mmm all things have changed now that grub2 is common, having trouble myself, having to read manuals :( Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mindwave 0 Report post 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites