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

[Lisa Kachold]

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

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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