Re-linking mandriva to GRUB

[GlorifedGG]

Hi, its seems to be a common problem but none of the solutions ive found seem to work.
ok i had Win2k and Mandrake 10.1 as a dual boot. the windows partition was ghosted with a new image, so it over-wrote the MBR. i have now successfully restored the GRUB and i have my Windows/linux options. However, when i select Linux, it doesnt boot, it just stalls. can anyone tell me how to get the GRUB to point to the OS on the right HD?

[fingal]

I would read this Grub tutorial. It contains the answers you want.

[kevkim55]

Have you changed the partitions in some eay ? If yes, you can try changing the root=/dev/hda? to the right partition. To do this you will have to hit the 'e' key with linux option highlighted (In GRUB's boot menu) and hit 'e' again to edit the line.

[serz]

Hmm.. another option would be to boot with your Rescue Disk (if you have one) of your distribution, it's generally the installation cd, and fix GRUB from there.

[sabin]

The "upgrade" through the install CD has that only problem that it will reset the urpmi sources. If you want to avoid that there's a very twisted solution : boot up with a live-CD linux distro like knoppix or live-ubuntu, use qparted/gparted to see on which device is your linux system partition, and manually edit grub's configuration file ^^