well i finally got agp gart and dri working in mandrake10. then i figured it would be a great time to install windows, and whaddaya know, it wiped the mbr.
i didnt make a rescue disk, cuz rescue disks are for pussies. and/or smart people. so i stuck in the 10 install cd, told it to reinstall the bootloader. it tried to fix lilo, which wouldve been fine, but i got error 2 and quit. lovely.
so i went to rescue and did grub-install --root-directory=/dev/hd0 it didnt work so i tried hda,b,1,etc etc. honestly i dont remember the partitions. i carved up the disks last night and im not sure what partition holds what.
i also tried "grub" and then grub>install but i couldnt get anywhere with that either.

im really not in the mood to reinstall after making a kernel that finally work well with my radeon. i dont care what bootloader i use, as long as its not the windoze one. i just need to get back into linux.

thanks

Assuming you only have one HD, to have a clue about your partition settings do

fdisk /dev/hda

then enter 'p'
then quit

to install grub run grub

grub> root (hd0,x)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

Replace x by the number of you root partition.

You also need /boot/grub/grub.conf set to your configuration. Se if you have a grub.conf.example and try to edit it for your configuration.


This is mine:

Gentoo w00ta!

This might even help to clear up Covel's reply:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...le&full=1#grub

Gentoo handbook rules

Yes, yes it does.