thanks for the help, Paul. I really appreciate it. Now I kow what to do the next time this happens. I wound up reinstalling the operating system which ai had just installed a couple of days prior to this happening. I expected only that os to be fixed but both of them were fixed. I really wish I could utilize your advice! On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Paul Mooring wrote: > 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: > > # grubu;l --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 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~(-: > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: