Grub broken.

[samuel]

that's interesting... i got the same with my last lunar install...
installed already 4 times again.. and everytime the same
all i updated is theedge... maybe lunar-init is borking something???
cause mounting the device from the iso says it'"s perfectly clean...


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Chris Andrew <cjhandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> "This device apparently does not exist".
>
> Does anyone know why this has happened?  I'm reluctant to do a long
> install just to replicate the error.
>
> Thanks again, Auke.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris.
>
> 2008/8/12 Kok, Auke <sofar at foo-projects.org>:
>> Chris Andrew wrote:
>>> Hi, all.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Auke,
>>>
>>>> root (hd0,0)
>>>> setup (hd0)
>>>> reboot
>>>
>>> did the job and it now boots.  For some strange reason I am now
>>> getting an fcsk error 8 on /dev/hda2.
>>>
>>> I tried /sbin/fsck -y /dev/hda2, boot it says that my superblock is
>>> missing or corrupt. Before I installed Lunar, I did an exhaustive HDD
>>> check, so I'm sure my HDD is ok.
>>
>> ew. fortunately there are backup superblocks. To find out where they are, run
>> `mkfs.ext3` with the -n option so that it displays their location (but doesn't
>> actually format the filesystem):
>>
>> # mkfs.ext3 -n /dev/hda2
>>
>> then use fsck.ext3 with one of those numbers to see if it can be recovered:
>>
>> # fsck.ext3 -b $BLOCKNUMBER /dev/hda2
>>
>>
>> warning: if the superblock is bad it's quite likely something trashed the
>> filesystem alltogether (like installing grub in the wrong location).
>>
>> Auke
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me get past this?  Failing that, I will try 1 fresh install.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Chris.
>>>
>>> 2008/8/12 Kok, Auke <sofar at foo-projects.org>:
>>>> Chris Andrew wrote:
>>>>> Can anyone tell me what I should type at the Grub > prompt to see what
>>>>> my menu.1st looks like?
>>>> Ive seen this bug and it's sometimes not even needed to fix a menu.lst file. At
>>>> the failed boot prompt you can `reinstall` grub on the fly:
>>>>
>>>>> root (hd0,0)
>>>>> setup (hd0)
>>>>> reboot
>>>> this will work if your /boot partition is /dev/sda and you had/want grub in the
>>>> mbr. if the above `setup` command works then grub will find your menu.lst file
>>>> again and hopefully it'll work
>>>>
>>>> if not then you can boot as follows:
>>>>
>>>>> root (hd0,0)
>>>>> kernel 2.6.2x root=/dev/sda2
>>>>> boot
>>>> and then try to use lunar to fix it (lin -c grub, lin -c linux-2.6)
>>>>
>>>> Auke
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