[H-GEN] Grub Error

[ciphernaut]

Hi Deepan,

It depends where you had installed grub to.

I usually find the following recipe to work
1) boot from live distro or rescue cdrom
2) locate and mount the distro's / and /boot filesystems somewhere temporarily
3) use mount -o bind to make proc and dev available in the temporary mounted /
4) chroot into that location
5) reinstate grub

If you are familiar with grub shell you can specify root, kernel and
initrd directly (use the tab key) and boot them directly, reinstate
grub when the system has come up.
In both cases inspect the output that grub install process can
identify how to correctly get to /boot/grub/menu.lst

HTH,
Marco

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Deepan <codeshepherd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Hi All,
>  I deleted my windows partition using live CD. Now
>  my machine won't boot into linux. It stops at the
>  grub prompt with the error operating system not
>  found. How do I reinstall grub using live CD? Or
>  should I boot into my linux operating system with
>  root, kernel and initrd option in grub and then
>  install grub ?
>  Regards
>  Deepan
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