[SOLVED] Deleted /boot partition on dm-crypt system
Hi all,
So I deleted my /boot partition. It wasn't exactly an accident, but I didn't think it would be as difficult to restore as it currently is; Pre-deletion I used gparted to 'copy' the partition onto a USB key, but for whatever reason I am having great difficulty 'copying' it back. I think it's the combination of having a full-disk encrypted system with dm-crypt, and the EFI bootloader. I'm using rEFIt.
So far I have tried copying the partition back to /dev/sda3, which I was not able to do (paste function was disabled), so then I re-created the partition, (ext3), gave it boot flags and did a cp -r -p of the files to the directory, which didn't work.
I have also used the alternate cd to reinstall grub, which also is giving me a 'no system disk' message at boot. Good thing I have this OS X partition hanging around...
Can someone please point out what I am doing wrong? Thank you!
M
Last edited by MaddMatt; December 12th, 2008 at 05:13 PM.
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