Re: [Clonezilla-live] Grub problem at restoration.

[Umarzuki M. <uma...@gm...>]

2009/6/2 Giorgos <gio...@gm...>

> Hi! :-)
>
> Some time ago, I made an image for my ubuntu jaunty partition (ext4
> formated), with clonezilla live cd.
> Recently, after downloading the latest clonezilla version, I restored
> the image and after restoring the files, I received this error at grub
> restoration phase:
>
> Running: grub-install-no-floppy-root-directory=/tmp/hd_img.QiFQFv /dev/sda
>
> grub-probe: error: Cannot open  '/boot/grub/devise_map'
>
> /usr/sbin/grub-install: line 374: [: =: unary operator expected
>
>
> Then the restoration just stopped, so after some time I pressed
> ctrl-alt-del and I restarted.
> My system became non-bootable (since grub was erratic), so I could
> only boot windows, booting from floppy (with gag).
>
> The usual way for restoring grub from ubuntu live cd not worked, so I
> made a fresh install (that corrected MBR) and I restored my image with
> clonezilla (at expert mode) unchecking (deselecting) the "Reinstall
> grub" option.
>
> OK! I'm new to Linux, so I need your help! :-)
> Everything seems to be OK now, but what went wrong?
>
>
> Thanks!!! :-)
> Giorgos.
>
this happened to me too . For linux image restoration, there are 2 thing you
had to do manually

   1. edit fstab to reflect current device file name
   2. install GRUB

to edit fstab

$ sudo fdisk -l
to check the right device name. Say your hd is /dev/sda and root partition
is sda1, mount it and edit fstab accordingly
$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt
$ sudo vi /mnt/etc/fstab

to install GRUB

$ sudo grub
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
to check where GRUB should be installed, say the output is (hd0,0)

grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
output message should be positive and now you're done.


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Umarzuki Mochlis
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