Re: no such partition~I hurt my machine

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Author: Lisa Kachold
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Subject: Re: no such partition~I hurt my machine
Good job Michael! Now you get to run everything under the BT menu; while
also looking at the youtube videos!

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:

> I figured that the backtrack install was brand new and I hadn't done
> anythin g to it except apt-get upgrade so I figured I thought I would just
> reinstall it and then fight with the other distribution if that fixed grub
> for backtrack. Was I surprised when I found that both installations were
> fixed.
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Sam Kreimeyer <> wrote:
>
>> I don't see anything wrong, but then again, my dabbling with grub
>> usually didn't end well.
>>
>> If you don't have anything on the partitions to lose, I would suggest
>> booting from a live CD like GParted, making your partition edits that
>> way and then installing as normal. I believe installing Ubuntu on a HD
>> with multiple partitions will come with grub already on board.
>>
>> Trying to straighten it out through the command line might be a more
>> fun learning experience, though : )
>>
>> On 1/12/12, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>> > I've been searching for a solution to this and think I found it here->
>> > http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Multi_Distribution_Boot_Howto
>> > which states:
>> > '''''''''''''''''''''''''''
>> > You will have to open a Grub terminal and run:
>> > grub> device (hd0) /dev/sda
>> > grub> root (hd0,1)
>> > grub> setup (hd0,1)
>> > grub> root (hd0,2)
>> > grub> setup (hd0,2)
>> > and so on.
>> > grub> quit
>> > sync
>> > ''''''''''''''''''''''''''
>> > And then I suppose that's it.
>> > Does this look right?
>> >
>> > --
>> > :-)~MIKE~(-:
>> >
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