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jwe

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Registered: 2009-11-14

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] no /boot

I'm trying to fix an old drive with Vista and Arch installed, Arch's /boot, swap and / (with /home) were on seperate partitions.  /boot and swap are gone, Vista boots fine and I can mount Arch so I assume this is recoverable but I'm not sure what to do.

Could I mount Arch, chroot and recreate the kernel26/fallback.img files with mkinitcpio then reinstall grub?  What else would be needed?  I think recall a few other things in /boot.

I googled and searched around various other forums for a while but didn't come up with anything.

fdisk -l looks like this (the rest being about 2-3 GiB of unformatted space.)

/dev/sda1   blah blah   blah/ntfs
/dev/sda2   blah blah   ext3

Thank you for the help.

Last edited by jwe (2010-05-06 21:17:52)

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: [SOLVED] no /boot

Reinstalling the kernel and grub should suffice.

Surgat_

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Registered: 2007-08-08

Posts: 317

Re: [SOLVED] no /boot

You will also have to configure /boot/grub/menu.lst, as it will be gone too.

Last edited by Surgat_ (2009-12-04 12:51:36)