Comments on: How to reinstall GRUB2

By: gyc

gyc — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:03:00 +0000

nice….thanks for the post

By: Sick Fuck

Sick Fuck — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:05:31 +0000

Thanks a fucking lot. You explained it to me like everything should be explained. To-the-point, and with a little sarcasm or so. Awesome. I fixed my laptop, you fixed me with a glimpse of light in this dark day and everything will work out in the end somehow.

Thanks for explaining.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:15:07 +0000

Oh Damn!

That's what I get for not using my reading glasses! "directory" was spelled wrong! And I looked at that friggin' thing a half-dozen times too. . . .

Oh well!

Jim

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:13:02 +0000

I am trying this using the Ubuntu 9.10 desktop (x64) live disk
Viz: sudo grub-install –root-direectory=/media/c83d6da3-0f69-4ceb-a773-d7aff3b65089 /dev/sda

And I get the following:
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Unrecognized option `–root-direectory=/media/c83d6da3-0f69-4ceb-a773-d7aff3b65089'
Usage: grub-install [OPTION] installdevice
Install GRUB on your drive.

-h, –help print this message and exit
-v, –version print the version information and exit
–modules=MODULES pre-load specified modules MODULES
–root-directory=DIR install GRUB images under the directory DIR
instead of the root directory
–grub-setup=FILE use FILE as grub-setup
–grub-mkimage=FILE use FILE as grub-mkimage
–grub-mkdevicemap=FILE use FILE as grub-mkdevicemap
–grub-probe=FILE use FILE as grub-probe
–no-floppy do not probe any floppy drive
–recheck probe a device map even if it already exists
–force install even if problems are detected
–disk-module=MODULE disk module to use

INSTALLDEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.

grub-install copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specified by
–root-directory, and uses grub-setup to install grub into the boot
sector.

Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.
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Something is not happy here – and I don't know what.

By: James

James — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:52:03 +0000

In their defense, GRUB2 is pretty much a ground-up rewrite of the software. They were running up against the limits of what could be reasonably be done with GRUB1 due to the way the code was written.

Yay software engineering.

By: James

James — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:52:00 +0000

In their defense, GRUB2 is pretty much a ground-up rewrite of the software. They were running up against the limits of what could be reasonably be done with GRUB1 due to the way the code was written.

Yay software engineering.

By: Ben L.

Ben L. — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:20:03 +0000

Good to know. I do this all the time, figures they’d change it on me.

By: Ben L.

Ben L. — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:20:00 +0000

Good to know. I do this all the time, figures they’d change it on me.