Hi
I am having trouble installing grub after having to reinstall windows 98.
I do the following to get to my linux partition

I boot with redhat 7.2 install cd
I then typed "linux rescue" at the prompt

Asked for language and to click continue to find system

get another prompt.

Typed "chroot /mnt/sysimage"

then typed "/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda"
got "/dev/root: Not found or not a block device"

cat /proc/partitions shows both hard discs and partitions on them
I have 2 hardrives and 2 cdrom drives

hda has 2 fat 32 partitions
hdab has 2 partitions 1 linux and 1 swapspace

Partition magic6 sees all partitions from windows.

confused

This might help:

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-l...-Mar/2334.html


John

Grub doesn't use the hda, hdb, etc. designation. It uses hd0, hd1, etc. (that hd zero, hd one, etc.).
So, hda=hd0 in grub's terminology. Try it again using /dev/hd0 instead of /dev/hda.

Mmmmm, I don't think so. You can use either even though the newer hd0 syntax is recommended.

You can even mix them within the same file.


John

How exactly is your partition table ?I don't think parted was given with RH7.2, but at the rescue mode, you can use parted to print your partition table.

Hi
I tried parted and then used the command 'check1' and got back that the freespace of hda1 equals 505700 not 505699 ..... seems like something might be up with the partition...... I read that the only way to fix this is to backup and then delete all the partions on my windows hdd (hda) and repartition...

I could just reinstall Redhat to hdb all over again but I think that's the easy way out.

any ideas.....
Cheers