"no such partition"~I hurt my machine!

[Paul Mooring]

I've usually had bad luck with 'grub-install', I would boot a live cd
and run the grub command itself, then just run the install commands:

  # grub --no-floppy
  ...
  grub>  root (hd0,0)
  grub> setup (hd0)

This assumes your /boot/grub/menu.lst is already setup, /dev/sda1 is
your root, and you want your bootloader on the /dev/sda drive.  If any
of that's not true adjust the (hdX,X) part, so if you want the boot
loader on /dev/sdb and the root partition is /dev/sdb2 run 'root
(hd1,1)' and 'setup (hd1)'.  Hope that helps.


On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I did it again..... I hurt my machine. To hurt my machine I was moving
> partitions around and resizing some. After I got done playing with these
> things I rebooted and an absolutely lovely message appeared! That message
> was:
>
>      error : no such partition
>      grubrescue>_
>
> Oops! What did I do now. I didn't modify the first partition (which is a
> distributiomn) in the least so I was thinking I would boot into that
> partition. Except it isn't even loading grub so I can't do that. In my
> efforts to fix this on my own I entered 'update-grub' but it said 'no such
> file.....'. Then I entered 'ls' and the response was
>
>      (hd0) (hd0,8) (hd0,7) (hd0,6) (hd0,5) (hd0,1)
>
> Going on from what I've heard do I need to mount the partitions with
> distributions on them and then reinstall grub
> sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdathen Reboot normally then
> update grub:
>
>      sudo update-grub
>
> Is this right?
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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