Help - Just Hosed My Grub 2 Install and Can't Boot

[Eric Shubert]

Lisa Kachold wrote:
> Glad you got it going.  It was interesting to read a bit about the
> differences between Grub2 and grub...Thanks for the fun!

I imagine that was interesting all right. Care to give us a recap?

> On 12/28/09, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>> Thank-you for your suggestions. I also found this link that was helpful as
>> well - http://linuxers.org/howto/how-fix-grub2-error-15-ubuntu. I was able
>> to boot into my Debian partition with your help, and after running
>> dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc one more time, grub found my windows partition and
>> my dual boot grub 2 install is working again!
>>
>> Next time I will wait to finish my first cup of coffee before I try anything
>> more taxing than reading email....;-)
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Lisa Kachold
>> <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Or just try
>>> 1) Boot into recovery CD/DVD or distro USB drive.
>>> 2) sudo grub-install /dev/sda
>>>
>>> OMIT 3/4
>>>
>>> ??
>>>
>>> On 12/28/09, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
>>>> 1) Boot into recovery CD/DVD or distro USB drive.
>>>> 2) Revert back http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1298932
>>>> 3) Redo with correct box checked for SCSI sda.
>>>> 4) Return to 1 if STILL not working (like many others are doing)....
>>>>
>>>> On 12/28/09, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>>>>> I was just finishing a new Debian squeeze install on a new laptop, and
>>>>> the
>>>>> last step was updating grub to grub 2. I went through
>>>>> update-from-grub-legacy, but I hit return before I ticked the box for
>>>>> sda.
>>>>> Now my system won't boot - I get error 15 when it starts up with grub.
>>>>> I
>>>>> am
>>>>> sure I just wiped out the old grub and did not install the new one. Any
>>>>> suggestions on how to go back and fix this problem? I can't boot into
>>>>> either
>>>>> windows or Debian.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
>>>>
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