Repairing GRUB after imaging Ubuntu with Symantec Ghost

Posted by The Technocrat | Filed under Operating Systems

The GRUB bootloader sometimes doesn’t survive imaging with Symantec Ghost.

After applying an image of Ubuntu Linux to a target machine, GRUB may need to be repaired before the machine will boot properly. To repair GRUB, do the following:

  1. Load the Live CD, boot from it until you reach the desktop.
  2. Open a terminal window.
  3. Type “sudo grub”
  4. Type “root (hd0,0)”, or whatever your harddisk + boot partition numbers are.
  5. You can easily look up the boot partition for the version of Ubuntu on the hard drive by browsing to the hard disk from the LiveCD desktop.
  6. Open /boot/grub/menu.lst in a text editor.Scroll to the bottom and look up which partition the menu choice for Ubuntu points to. (hd0,0 by default)
  7. Type “setup (hd0)”, or whatever your harddisk number is.
  8. Quit grub by typing “quit”.
  9. Reboot the machine.

(tested with 64-bit Ubuntu Linux 8.04)

Comments (2) | June 2nd, 2008

2 Responses to “Repairing GRUB after imaging Ubuntu with Symantec Ghost”

  1. Cederash Says:
    May 23, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    Данный пост реально помог мне принять очень важное для себя решение. За что автору отдельное спасибо. Жду от Вас новых постов!

  2. Dallas Web Design Says:
    August 21, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    Good walk through It help. Thanks for the info.

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