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PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:40 pm    Post subject: Dual boot on laptop going good until ... Reply with quote

i installed the IBM recovery application which seems to have broken grub ..

now i just get GRUB on the screen on reboot. grub is on the partition before windows.. im booting to live cd now.. should i just reinstall grub and the conditions to load the win os and gentoo?

thanks in advance ..

Lenny
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Welp .. finished that up.. this is great for the archive as its what fixed my problem ..

mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
swapon /dev/hda2
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
source /etc/profile

MAKE YOUR CHANGES

exit
cd
umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/dev /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo
reboot



GRUB FIXES

cp /mnt/proc /etc/mtab
grub-install /dev/hda
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