I attempted a repair floppy last night. It didn't work out real well. Ahhh, for a command like sys a: :) Novel idea...
Anyway here's what I did for future google searches. Maybe it'll help someone someday.
How to Repair Grub boot loader after debian ghost restore
I booted with mepis (Any live-cd would probably do) Open a terminal window Mounted the drive (don't use the mepis icon as it mounts read only) mount -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 chroot /dev/hda1 grub-install /dev/hda
Worked like a charm.. Am a bit confused what the drive is hda1 till I get to the install part, but I'm guessing I'm mounting partition one on hda, but the grub wants the "drive" to install to. Not the partition.
Patrick Ouellette wrote:
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I am trying to implement a fallback full backup method for this great proxy-filter for the library.
I used ghost to back it up, just as I used to do with redhat.
Of course, ghost screws up grub. With Redhat, I'd stick the install cd in and at boot
type in Linux Rescue
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install
Since I used the sarge netinst, I seem to have no rescue cd. :(
Would someone mind giving me a simply way, on this system, to get grub back?
If you have a floppy drive, make a grub boot floppy. Google around for GRUB boot floppy. They work wonders and
are very flexible.
BTW, in the future, if I'm not dual booting, do I need a boot loader?
Yes you always need some sort of boot loader.
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