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Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: keithterrill on May 14, 2014, 11:01:55 PM

Title: grub partition not booting
Post by: keithterrill on May 14, 2014, 11:01:55 PM

I apologize if this is already covered. Point this poor boy in the right direction if that is the case.

I have a 38gig drive partitioned into:

Partition-0 100mg - grub, bootable  sda1
Partition-1 18gig - TC                         sda2
Partition-2 18gig - FreeDOS             sda3

The grub menu allowed me to launch a couple flavors of TC or launch the FreeDOS.
I decided to wipe out (format) and re-install a fresh TC on Partition-1. After I did this grub will not boot.
I launched TC from a CD, looked at the partitions with gparted. The grub was flagged to boot.

I changed the boot to the TC, partition-2, and did a reboot.... it booted from the hard drive.

So, short of re-installing the grub, how do we fix this... better still, what did I do that caused the failure?

thank you ever so much

keith

Title: Re: grub partition not booting
Post by: gerald_clark on May 14, 2014, 11:16:57 PM

You have not provided enough information to tell what you did wrong, and the clues are probably gone too.
Here are the instructions for installing and configuring grub:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/install_manual.html

Title: Re: grub partition not booting
Post by: Misalf on May 15, 2014, 01:42:29 PM

Sounds like with your second TC install you have overwitten your MBR with a new boot loader which now points to sda2 to look for the its config and files.

Title: Re: grub partition not booting
Post by: keithterrill on May 15, 2014, 04:08:38 PM

Misalf and gerlad_Clark:

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You have not provided enough information to tell what you did wrong, and the clues are probably gone too.

I expected this answer. And,

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Sounds like with your second TC install you have overwitten your MBR with a new boot loader which now points to sda2 to look for the its config and files.

I am sure that is true... just not sure how I did it... but will go back to

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instructions for installing and configuring grub:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/install_manual.html]/quote]

Thank you all....

Title: Re: grub partition not booting
Post by: coreplayer2 on May 15, 2014, 08:24:18 PM

Check also the info file if the grub extension


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