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Thread: How to rebuild /boot?

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    Exclamation How to rebuild /boot?

    I've lost the disk that contained the /boot directory of a 9.10 installation.

    All other important partitions/directories are on a raid0 and working ok.

    So, I started trying to repair the system by booting from Ubuntu 9.10 live cd, creating a new partition on a new disk for /boot, mounting all partitions in its place for a chroot environment, doing the chroot, and then trying several reinstalls of packages which I supposed where enough for rebuilding /boot (linux kernel & grub), then I ran something like grub-setup which installed a new MBR on the new disk.

    Everything went ok, but when I reboot the new installation it gets me to a text mode login screen and of course I want to recover the previous configuration which ran gdm and auto login into GNOME I had before.

    After that I tried reinstalling some other packages like gdm but now the boot process "hangs" on the boot splash screen.

    Any pointer on what I need to do or reinstall would be appreciated a lot.

  2. #2
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    Re: How to rebuild /boot?

    Being a new user in this forum, maybe I've missed some forum protocol when I posted this?

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