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Old 1st August 2010, 04:42 AM
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Windows 7 and grub error

I run F13 on a 64bit system.
Yesterday, I reinstalled Win7 32 bit. All went fine, well, most but it's Windoze. :P Untill I tried to rescue F13 with the DVD. I got to the shell, and typed:

Code:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/hda
Something that has helped me before. This time however, I get an error. Unfortunately I forgot the exact wording, but it says something like
Can not find hda, or it is not a block device.

Setup is this:
sda0 - Win7 System files
sda1 - Win7
sda2 - F13
sda3 - F13 home
sdb1 - ntfs data disk.

Windows boots fine-ish, as I am here now. How do I get Fedora back?
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Old 1st August 2010, 09:37 AM
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Re: Windows 7 and grub error

Should be grub-install /dev/sda
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Old 1st August 2010, 12:46 PM
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Re: Windows 7 and grub error

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Should be grub-install /dev/sda
Thanks. Tried that. Same error.
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Old 1st August 2010, 03:01 PM
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Re: Windows 7 and grub error

Maybe the first disk is being recognized as 'sdb'. Run 'fdisk -l' in rescue mode to be sure. If that's the case then install grub to sdb
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Re: Windows 7 and grub error

Thanks, a symptom further.
Code:
#fdisk -l
[snip]
/dev/sda1 start 1 end 13 Blocks 102400 ID 7 System HPFD NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
[snip]
The rest is without error... Interesting, and I have no clue what I can do about that. Reinstall windows and hope it gets it right this time?
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