[ubuntu-uk] Boot/Grub problem

[Tyler J. Wagner]

On 2011-10-31 20:04, Tony Pursell wrote:
> I've got a problem with booting after I removed my old 1GB swap file and
> created a new bigger swap file.  The upshot of this seems to be that /boot
> is now on /dev/sda6 instead of /dev/sda7.  (That's because the old swap was
> before it on the disk).  What I get now is Error: unknown filesystem and
> the Grub Rescue prompt.  I can put in appropriate commands there, which
> gives me the Grub menu and I can boot from there.  I have run update-grub
> and as far as I can see, grub.cfg now refers to /dev/sda6, but I am still
> getting the Grub error. 
> 
> Do I have to run grub-install as well?  If I do, what is install_device?  I
> don't want to make things worse by getting this wrong.

Yes, you do. Run:

grub-install /dev/sda

Regards,
Tyler

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