On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Gregory Machin <gdm at linuxpro.co.za> wrote: >> >> Following these instructions : >> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage/boot >> mount -t none /dev /mnt/sysimage/dev -o bind >> chroot /mnt/sysimage/boot >> mount /proc >> mount /sys > > Not sure you need any of that if your boot/rescue environment has grub. > >> then >> >> root (hd0,1) >> setup (hd0) >> quit >> >> I get the following: >> root (hd0,1) >> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 >> setup (hd0) >> Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no >> Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no >> >> Error 2: Bad file or directory >> quit >> >> I have checked that the stage1 file is in /boot/grub/ So Im confused. > > Either your rsync copy of the boot filesystem was not complete, or > what grub thinks is (hd0,1) is not the filesystem where you put it. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com Hi Les. Just to clarify my understanding of grub's syntax for hard disk partitions /dev/sda = hd0 /dev/sda1 = hd0,0 /dev/sda2 = hd0,1 Thanks Greg