Re: [Nolug] Unbootable disk

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:21:21 -0600
  Scott Harney <scotth@scottharney.com> wrote:
> John Tiedeman wrote:
>> A Seagate disk, which tests o.k. with Seatools, won't boot and using
>> Ultimate Boot CD and selecting to boot it, shows unbootable. I have a
>> big download on it that I would like to recover. Some combination of
>> attempts produces the message "Grub -- loading stage 2" and nothing
>> happens after that. How can I call the boot sector from the boot CD and
>> then repair grub?
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> This link may help:
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/grub/grub.htm
>
> If you don't care about booting the disk again and you just want to get
>the data off, boot a knoppix CD. once there you can mount the offending
>drive, find the file and copy it to some other place.
>
> Readers might want to know what sequence of events preceded this disk
>becoming unbootable. They might also what to know what "Some combine of
>attempts" were that result in an error from grub. Could probably get
some
>more detailed assistance that way.
>
>
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> Scott Harney <scotth@scottharney.com>
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I can't really be sure, but the trouble seems to have begun around the time
I moved the disk from hda to hdb.
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