[TriLUG] Rh9 hosed boot loader

[Rock Roskam]

I have had this problem several times and it turned out that the imaged partition has been set to inactive automatically.  This was with drive image.  I am not certain if ghost does the same thing.

Rock Roskam
E-learning Technical Support
Education Division
SAS Institute
(919) 531-9464
rock.roskam at sas.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Ray [mailto:jim at neuse.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 7:23 AM
To: Trilug Discussion
Subject: [TriLUG] Rh9 hosed boot loader


In my infinite wisdom, I made a ghost image (yes, winders based) of the rhce study group rh9 computer and proceeded to load debian.  I got stuck and decided to continue with debian at a later date after I learn more about the installation options.

No prob.  I ghosted the rh9 disk back onto the box.  Now, it will not boot. All I see is GRUB GRUB.

I tried to do some troubleshooting with mandrake move boot cd and then with rh9 rescue mode boot cd to no avail:

Rescue Mode
1.boot rh9 cd1 w/ f5 -> shell-2.05b#
2.chroot /mnt/sysimage
3.mount -o /mnt/hda1 -> cannot find in /etc/fstab
4.mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 -> no such file or directory 5.chroot /mnt/hda1 lilo

I am too green on the syntax to really know what I'm doing and want to avoid manually re-loading the box before Thursday night's lab.

Does anyone see anything obvisously wrong or have a method to reload the boot loader without reloading the whole rh9?  Fdisk /mbr?  I am not impressed with ghost disk image not getting the whole disk but rather only the partitions...

So much for backing up and restoring a system.

Regard,

Jim

Jim Ray, MCSE
Network Engineer
Neuse River Network, Inc.
2610 Vanderbilt Ave
Raleigh NC 27607-7247
tel: 919-838-1672 x201 toll free: 800-617-7652 http://www.Neuse.Net

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