[COLUG] Recovering hosed Thinkpad R&R partition

[Pat Collins]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:12:57 -0400, Jim <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote :

> David Riggs wrote:
> 
> > I hosed my MBR in the process of trying to rezise partitions 
> 
> > Now it freezed with a GRUB error 22. I tired to 
> > recover with Knoppix, but had no luck.
> 
> > I have no CD backups: they don't give you any and this machine has no 
> > burner (I got it cheap from Lenovo, now just out of warrenty).
> 
> Having hosed the MBR, with the possibility of doing further 
> hosage while trying to recover, I'd backup the mess I have 
> with dd. Something like: 
> 
>   dd if=/dev/hda | nc 192.168.0.whatever 2000
> 
> from Knoppix could squirt the bits to some other box with a 
> big hard drive and optionally a CD/DVD burner. 
> 

I wouldn't follow the above, because it is incomplete.

The problem here is the grub 22 error.  This error is:
22 : No such partition
    This error is returned if a partition is requested in the device part of
a device- or full file name which isn't on the selected disk. 

This suggests that your MBR is ok, but your partitions are messed up.

Pat