ephemerian
December 20th, 2009, 12:53 PM
My system has Ubuntu 9.10 dual-booting with vista, and everything has been running fine. I have a two disks in raid 1 configuration (via the bios, so it's a fakeraid) and even that was no problem to set up.
Then I upgraded vista to windows7. As expected, that overwrote the MBR so my grub boot menu doesn't appear any more. The problem I have is that the many recipes on the 'net for restoring grub don't work on my system. I'm not sure if it's the fakeraid (likely), grub2, the fact that my system is amd64 or what, but anyway I've so far failed to restore grub.
I have managed to boot back into linux using super grub disk (http://www.supergrubdisk.org/). Generally, instructions for restoring grub say something like 'grub-install /dev/sda', but my fakeraid hides the physical disks behind LVM (in my so-far limited understanding) so I see /dev/mapper/whatever. If I list the current mount points, I get:
#> sudo mount
/dev/mapper/pdc_beidbcaig5 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/home/ian/.Private on /home/ian type ecryptfs (ecryptfs_sig=219a12a04ed0f1bd,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=f e6d86c372bc2a1e,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_b ytes=16)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/ian/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=ian)
/dev/sr0 on /media/cdrom0 type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8,user=ian)
/dev/sdc1 on /media/disk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=1000,gid=1000, shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)
When booted up via SGD, my old /boot/grub/menu.lst is still there. So I guess what I need is the right incantation to restore grub to the MBR on the appropriate bit of the LVM mapping?
Any suggestions most welcome.
Thanks,
Ian
Then I upgraded vista to windows7. As expected, that overwrote the MBR so my grub boot menu doesn't appear any more. The problem I have is that the many recipes on the 'net for restoring grub don't work on my system. I'm not sure if it's the fakeraid (likely), grub2, the fact that my system is amd64 or what, but anyway I've so far failed to restore grub.
I have managed to boot back into linux using super grub disk (http://www.supergrubdisk.org/). Generally, instructions for restoring grub say something like 'grub-install /dev/sda', but my fakeraid hides the physical disks behind LVM (in my so-far limited understanding) so I see /dev/mapper/whatever. If I list the current mount points, I get:
#> sudo mount
/dev/mapper/pdc_beidbcaig5 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/home/ian/.Private on /home/ian type ecryptfs (ecryptfs_sig=219a12a04ed0f1bd,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=f e6d86c372bc2a1e,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_b ytes=16)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/ian/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=ian)
/dev/sr0 on /media/cdrom0 type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8,user=ian)
/dev/sdc1 on /media/disk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=1000,gid=1000, shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)
When booted up via SGD, my old /boot/grub/menu.lst is still there. So I guess what I need is the right incantation to restore grub to the MBR on the appropriate bit of the LVM mapping?
Any suggestions most welcome.
Thanks,
Ian