re Rescue Mode (Tech Support Department)

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
If it's not possible to recover Grub2 is it possible to reinstall?  


Personally i still haven't got out of the old Windows-support habit of just 
reinstalling instead of spending time trying to analyse and fix.  Grub2 should 
be reasonably easy to install on almost any type of partition.  


I think i might create a special partition purely for booting from.  A boot 
partition.  It's a bit old-school as i haven't seen one for years but they used 
to be very popular.  In some situations it might be possible to copy&paste your 
grub config file but even if not the newer version of grub2 would probably be 
able to find all the OSes that are bootable on your machine.  


I don't think it finds ones inside a virtual machine that you would run from 
inside one of the partitions (although obviously you can install directly into 
a virtual machine that could then boot any bootable OSes inside that virtual 
machine).  I guess if you could somehow get the bios to start-up a virtual 
machine then it could let Grub2 boot that but i think that would be really 
weird and freaky and possibly even scary.  


Anyway, many apols if a reinstall has already proven impossible.  I haven't 
been following this thread so it might be an inherently bad suggestion but 
reinstalls have always worked for me! :)
Regards from
Tom :)  





>Friends,
>A special Thank You to yannubuntu for the excellent work in
      obtaining a boot repair report at http://paste.ubuntu.com/1219427/.
>
>Unfortunately, the only remaining solution is to figure a way to
      mount the LVM partitions and copy off any data to save.  Don't
      know how to do that.
>
>But I did want everyone to know that GRUB2 cannot be recovered in
      certain situations, which is too bad.  I would like to know if
      this is an OS-dependent operation or if GRUB should be able to be
      fixed in any situation.
>
>Thanks all.
>
>KitchM
> Tech Support Department wrote:
>