[SOLVED] GRUB2 No such disk error

[aaron11193]

Hey again guys, I just repartitioned my disk to:

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006dbbb

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 24918 200153803+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 24919 25179 2096482+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3 * 25180 30401 41945715 b W95 FAT32

and reinstalled GRUB2 because I installed XP on the FAT32 partition (forgot to convert to NTFS in Windows setup, will do it again) and it overwrote GRUB2.

Now I get the grub rescue prompt and when I try to do "insmod (hd0,1)/boot/grub/linux.mod" I get "Error: no such disk", this is really pissing me off because I know the disk is there, and I know I'm pointing to the right partition. "ls" at the grub rescue prompt gets "(hd0) (hd0,1) (hd0,2) (hd0,3) (fd0)"..

Anyone know what the problem could be?

[devils casper]

/dev/sdb 1 24918 200153803+ 83 Linux

Are you sure its hd0 not hd1?

[aaron11193]

yeah I have my main HDD plugged in via USB and I'm running Ubuntu on my old hard drive..
It's hd0/sda when it's in the IDE slot.

This is a laptop BTW with no optical :S I can do PXE though..

[aaron11193]

I'm pretty sure that just reinstalling will fix it.. but I want to know, if I tar copy all my files, system and everything to another disk, reinstall, then copy it all back over, will it be exactly the same as it was?

[aaron11193]

Don't worry got it all working again using RIPLinux over PXE