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I have already zeroed the stage2 file, dd if=/dev/zero of=/boot/grub/stage2 bs=124k count=1. It didn't effect the system at all.

Zul K Irshad
– Zul K Irshad

2016-01-31 13:54:37 +00:00
Commented Jan 31, 2016 at 13:54
please do a sudo grub-install /dev/sda and reboot

Rui F Ribeiro
– Rui F Ribeiro

2016-01-31 13:56:03 +00:00
Commented Jan 31, 2016 at 13:56
according to this, it should work en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB

Rui F Ribeiro
– Rui F Ribeiro

2016-01-31 13:59:01 +00:00
Commented Jan 31, 2016 at 13:59
grub-install /dev/sda has regenerated /boot/grub/stage2 binary and system is still bootable.

Zul K Irshad
– Zul K Irshad

2016-01-31 14:02:13 +00:00
Commented Jan 31, 2016 at 14:02
maybe dd is creating a new file actually instead of overwriting the old one.

Rui F Ribeiro
– Rui F Ribeiro

2016-01-31 14:02:15 +00:00
Commented Jan 31, 2016 at 14:02

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