Boot my linux, dammit! ='(

[Pixelsize]

Hey! =(... Well this is my situation ppl... I had windows installed, then I made a partition with PMagic for linux, installed my wonderful debian sarge, later etch... and since u might all know that windows starts working every day less and less, the time for formatting came. GRUB was installed in the C: disk, so hey, formatting it and installing windows on it made GRUB just... fly away!. I can't make a "Windows GRUB" work and all the steps to make a floppy grub boot are made at linux, but my prob is that I can't get into linux =(. If I try to install it with the debian CD, it first recognizes the two OS, and when I press Next it tells me i gotta install debian again... but I don't wanna reinstall my whole linux again, it took me enough time to make it be how it is =(... any way to boot grub with a floppy or sth? (remembering, I can only access to windows) thx ppl..

[antidrugue]

A couple of how-to about reinstalling Grub with Debian CD :
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/325
http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/vi...oot-loader.php

[craigevil]

Here are a couple ways of doing it and hopefully one of them will work for you:

Boot with a Knoppix CD (or some other live-cd), or use a rescue/boot floppy like Tomsrtbt ( http://www.toms.net/rb/ ); determine your root partition and mount it to a temporary mount point; then chroot into it; then reinstall GRUB:

sudo mkdir /mnt/temp

sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/temp
(change /dev/hda1 to match your own root partition)

sudo chroot /mnt/temp

sudo grub-install /dev/hda

or...

determine your root partition, then mount it "dev" option enabled with write permissions. If the filesystem isn't mounted you'll need to mount it like this (be sure to change "hda1" and "hda" to match the location/device in your own system):

sudo mount -o dev,rw /mnt/hda1

if it's already mounted, remount it like this:

sudo mount -o remount,dev,rw /mnt/hda1

now restore grub like this:

sudo chroot /mnt/hda1 grub-install /dev/hda

if it doesn't work using chroot, try remounting as outlined above and do:

sudo grub-install -root-directory=/mnt/hda1 /dev/hda

Kanotix has an option to "Restore Grub", simply boot with the livecd and choose restore grub.
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[Pixelsize]

I'm on my debian again ^^ I missed Xgl xD. Yay, thx man. I couldn't understand those links, but I followed ur steps, and went well on me at the end I had on both cases errors but... hey! grub appeared! xD. I was downloading Knoppix in case it would help me, guess I did right thing . Plus I made myself a grub boot floopy xD No way to go wrong again xD. Thx again u both for worrying - cya!!! ^^