[vox-tech] SOLVED - Re: Linux live disk's install attempt onto external drive botched my internal drive's grub!

[Rod Roark]

Reminds me of my recent difficulty getting Mint installed onto a RAID
partition:

  https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=225204

Similarly with Ubuntu.  You'd think they would make that easier....

Rod

On 07/16/2016 01:35 AM, Bill Broadley wrote:
>
> Heh, I'm impressed, that's pretty painful and tricky, but you managed it.
>
> An alternative just booting a rescue thumb drive (like most ISO images
> these days).  Normally they have a "reinstall grub" as well as
> spawning a shell option.  If you spawn a shell just run grub-install
> /dev/sda.
>
>> So all I had to do at that point was tell grub how to boot:
>>
>>    set root=(hd0,msdos1)
>>    set prefix=(hd0,msdos1)/grub
>>    insmod normal
>>    insmod linux
>>    linux (hd0,msdos1)/vmlinuz-3.13.0-51-generic
>>    initrd (hd0,msdos1)/initrd.img-3.13.0-51-generic
>>    boot
>>
>> A bunch of kernel boot-up noise appeared, and I was prompted to enter
>> the passphrase to decrypt my root (/) directory, and after a moment,
>> my KDE login screen appeared!
>>
>> I brought up a shell, and run "sudo grub-install /dev/sda"
>> (notice, not "/dev/sda1").
>>
>> Rebooted, and here I am.  Whew!
>
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