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pangpong

Member

Registered: 2012-04-21

Posts: 10

Grub is broken.

Does anyone know of a good Grub forum that could help me with the following issue?:

I recently installed #! along side xp on a 40GB hard drive then imaged my hard disk using Clonezilla.  The image was reported by clonezilla as being successfull and so I re-imaged an identical computer.  The imaging was reported by clonezilla to be successfull, however, at start up, instead of the grub options screen I'm used to, I see something completely different which says

                                  GNU GRUB version 1.99-18

   Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the fist word, TAB
   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists possible
   device or file completions.

grub> _

When I press TAB, I get an absolutely bewildering list of possible commands, most of which require arguments.

I'm a little mystified as to why it's broken.

Pangpong

xaos52

The Good Doctor

From: Planet of the @s

Registered: 2011-06-24

Posts: 4,312

Re: Grub is broken.

That is the infamous grub prompt.
You will have to re-install grub, by running a live system, and then chroot into the #! install on disk.

The reason is probably because grub uses the MBR and blocklists to get to the grub install files.
The blocklists are lost on the new computer.

Here is howto re-install grub: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/150294/#p150294

hth

Last edited by xaos52 (2012-04-25 13:23:57)

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pangpong

Member

Registered: 2012-04-21

Posts: 10

Re: Grub is broken.

Thanks, that looks like it could just work.

I also found some help here: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=83521.0 which suggests that it might be possible for me to re-image the disk using different options in Clonezilla, such as

                   NO reinstall grub
                   NO NTFS fiddling
                   NO resize
                   YES use dd to recreate partition

I'm doing that now, but because the use of dd has been chosen, it's taking forever compared to the usual method.

Thanks once again, I hope to post back with good news by tomorrow at least!

pangpong

pangpong

Member

Registered: 2012-04-21

Posts: 10

Re: Grub is broken.

The use of different options in Clonezilla appear to have solved the problem!