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I just did something that I am really not proud of! I had 2 harddrives in my machine. GRUB was installed on hda (80Gb). Originally Mandrake was installed on this disk. Since installing Debian on hdb (160Gb) I have not booted into Mandrake for anything... so I figured that since hda wasn't being used, I would take it out and put it to good use in the server I'm putting together... Anyone guess what I did wrong? Yep! I haven't installed a bootloader onto hdb. Even sillier, I have already wiped the 80Gb drive (what was hda) so I haven't got a bootloader that'll load it anyway! I didn't have any parts of the Debian filesystem on hda, so everything is still there, I just can't get it to boot. I've tried firing up the Debian net-install (Sarge) CD, mounting the partition that should be /, chrooting it, mounting all the other relevant partitions (/boot, etc) and using: grub-install /dev/hdb And guess what! When I reboot the machine (after setting the BIOS to look at "hdd-1") it doesn't boot! Anyone help here? I am currently stranded, running on my laptop only! Cheers. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.