[Lula] Grub Error

Steve Glasser sgla9347 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 23:58:00 EDT 2008


I think that what happened is that when the OP removed a windows
partition the mbr was re-ordered.

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Peter Benjamin <pete at peterbenjamin.com> wrote:
> At 06:13 PM 4/1/2008, you wrote:
>  >Sounds like grub is no longer pointed at the correct partition.
>
<snip>
>
>  So, this appears to be a case where grub installed most
>  of itself on a Windows partition???
 I don't think so
>
>  The below questions are just grumblings, best ignored
>  as I can do my own homework, rtfm.
>
>  And the proper solution before deleting the Windows partitions
>  would be to copy the /boot folder from there to a non windows
>  partition, and tell grub the new location, via one of it's
>  commands?  Will it copy itself to a new partition and set that
>  up?  Can you hand edit this, that is the grub pointer to the
>  /boot partition?

/boot would be a linux partition created by the linux installer.
>
>  Can not one install grub on it's own partition?  So, it is not
>  dependent on an OS partition?
>
No.



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Steve Glasser
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