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Registered: 2010-05-09

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no more GRUB after change of /etc/rc.sysinit

Hi I think I have done a stupid thing. I've change the /etc/rc.sysinit file like is write on

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Twe … _boot_time

and i've deleted "pata" from HOOKS because I have SATA disk.

and now the GRUB is disappeared!

help me please!
thanks

demian

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Re: no more GRUB after change of /etc/rc.sysinit

Grub only disappears if you overwrite the first 446 bytes of your drive or delete the grub files in /boot.

So.. what do you mean by "grub disappeared"?

If you deleted grub in some way, you have to reinstall it with grub-install. You can do this by starting from live cd, mounting your /root and /boot to /mnt (and /mnt/boot) and running grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdx (replace sdx with your drive).

If you can't boot into arch because of changes in rc.sysinit you have to reinstall initscripts as i don't suppose you created a backup.

You also might have to reinstall mkinitcpio and create a kernelimage with mkinitcpio -p kernel26.

Regards,
demian

Last edited by demian (2010-05-09 20:47:35)

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Re: no more GRUB after change of /etc/rc.sysinit

thank you very much! now it works