Restoring my Linux/GRUB2

FeFiDoh · 30 Sep 2012 at 13:28

Ok so I had Win 7 installed on an SSD and Ubuntu and a different drive. I use to get the grub boot at startup to select what OS.
I bought a new SSD so installed a fresh version of Windows 7 and lost my loader.

I have tried a few different ways of trying to get it back but have been unsuccessful.

This is from bootloader
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1248069/

I tried booting to live cd
sudo gurb
find /boot/stage 1 etc..
root (hdx,x) no avail.

Have tried mounting the drive dev/sdd -- root-directory=/mnt

Didn't work either and think a few other methods but haven't been able to get it sorted.

Any ideas of what I can do?
Thank you!

Woden · 30 Sep 2012 at 13:36

Is your linux HDD set as the first boot device?

FeFiDoh · 30 Sep 2012 at 13:47

No my SSD is which has win 7 on it

deadite66 · 30 Sep 2012 at 14:15

i'd try the livecd again.

mount /dev/sdd2 /mnt
grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda

FeFiDoh · 30 Sep 2012 at 14:32

I tried that it looked as if it had done something but alas nothing on reboot :/

FeFiDoh · 30 Sep 2012 at 17:50

If I change my boot priority to the drive that has Linux on it loads a command/terminal looking prompt for grub > and that is it.

deadite66 · 30 Sep 2012 at 19:22

this is why i keep my boots separate, install grub on the linux drive then F12 at boot to choose linux.

Woden · 30 Sep 2012 at 20:03

FeFiDoh said:
If I change my boot priority to the drive that has Linux on it loads a command/terminal looking prompt for grub > and that is it.

If you type in the commands that would go into grub.conf, does your distro load? It might just need re-doing.

FeFiDoh · 1 Oct 2012 at 18:15

I have no idea! I am a total Linux noob so it has all taken me ages! I thought I had it sorted yesterday it seemed to work, well I made it further than before and had no mnt errors, restarted back to grub>

deadite66 · 1 Oct 2012 at 18:23

if you can choose a drive at boot might be worth installing grub on the linux drive.

melvis · 8 Oct 2012 at 08:54

sounds to me like you might want to do this from the livecd

mount /dev/sdd2 /mnt
grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdb

your system seems to do what one of mine does, the drive that is seen as sda in linux (the first, usually plugged in to the first sata port) isnt the one its set to boot from in the bios.

[EDIT]this is assuming the original boot priority is restored from the start of the thread