Comments on: Restore Debian Linux Grub boot loader

By: Oti

Oti — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:11:47 +0000

Thank you very much !
It’s the first tuto that works for me, there’s an awful lot of topics that do not even mention the “chroot” part…

By: Bjoern

Bjoern — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:47:14 +0000

Phew, thanks!. Managed to clone my old disk and now running my old Debian install on my new disk.

By: l4mer

l4mer — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:40:52 +0000

I had:
not found or not a block device.
message.
So, next I create node for my /dev/hda
mknod /dev/hda 3 0
mknod /dev/hda5 3 5

By: suresh

suresh — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:09:09 +0000

Hi..
I tried to restore grub by using the debiam rescue mode…This time I lost windows..!!While selecting windows it is again loading Grub Stage2 and showing the grub menu again….Please help me out..!!

By: Ankur

Ankur — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:31:56 +0000

Anand ! Go here

By: Anand

Anand — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:52:00 +0000

i forgot my linux root password.

so. solve me

root password……….

By: davidb

davidb — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:54:27 +0000

thanks, good instructions.

though, you should probably unmount the drive before restarting (though it really isn’t that important).

By: rc

rc — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:10:06 +0000

I’ve been following your instructions but it does not work. Since I chrooted to the mounted /dev/sda2 (where grub sould be installed in /boot) grub-install looks for the device file (/dev/sda) in the chrooted dir and thus returns an error; /dev/sda: not found or not a block device. Which makes sense because I did not boot to sda so the /dev/sda device file was never created.

By the time you read this (hopefully) I’ll have it fixed, but would like to know what I’m not getting just for curiosity sake. Will be checking back.

thanks

By: raf

raf — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:49:29 +0000

I have a problem regarding dual boot (vista & ubuntu) when successful in installing ubuntu, I can’t boot to vista, only ubuntu. It said virus:….. Is it like a boot virus? how to fix that? thank you

By: danuthaiduc

danuthaiduc — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:05:25 +0000

Saved my life! luckily i had a LiveCD to be able to read this…
Thanks!

By: krishnakumar

krishnakumar — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:40:43 +0000

very nice thank u

By: krishnakumar

krishnakumar — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:39:33 +0000

very nice comment