boot partition wiped out - how to recreate grub's files [SOLVED]

graysky · 2010-05-16 16:31:45

Boot partition got wiped out on my system.

/dev/sda1 #root
/dev/sda2 #boot
/dev/sda3 #swap
/dev/sda4 #home

I'm in an ubuntu live CD and doing this via VNC. I am chrooted into /dev/sda1 (arch) and I have mounted /boot and regenerated the kernel images. There is a /boot/grub/menu.lst and a /boot/grub/system.map but that's it. If I look at my functional system (another pc) I see a ton of extra grub files:

$ ls /boot/grub
 fat_stage1_5            stage1           xfs_stage1_5
                ffs_stage1_5      minix_stage1_5     stage2
default                      iso9660_stage1_5  more.lst           stage2_eltorito
device.map                   jfs_stage1_5      reiserfs_stage1_5  ufs2_stage1_5
e2fs_stage1_5                menu.lst          splash.xpm.gz      vstafs_stage1_5

How can I get them back? I thought that a pacman -S grub would do it, but nothing...??

Last edited by graysky (2010-05-16 16:51:10)

Ramses de Norre · 2010-05-16 16:38:38

The wiki seems to explain this fairly well.

graysky · 2010-05-16 16:39:51

*!@* I must have read that page 3 times over and missed that 3 times over. Thank you!

EDIT: made the wiki article a little more obvious!

Last edited by graysky (2010-05-16 16:55:41)

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#1 2010-05-16 16:31:45

boot partition wiped out - how to recreate grub's files [SOLVED]

#2 2010-05-16 16:38:38

Re: boot partition wiped out - how to recreate grub's files [SOLVED]

#3 2010-05-16 16:39:51

Re: boot partition wiped out - how to recreate grub's files [SOLVED]

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