I need a bit of help to get this right.

[wavemaker]

Gooday all. I have pclos 2010 on a laptop for a friends daughter. Everything went well until first reboot. There is a problem with GRUB. PCLOS does not show up. I need to get this back to her asap. Would someone please advise how to go about this. Laotop is a toshiba Satellite A660.Running Win7 home premium. Intel core i5 cpu. M430@2.27 ghz. 4gb ram 2.49 useable. 32 bit.

[uncleV]

Some more info needed.

Is there another OS installed except PCLOS and Win7?
If not which was last installed ?

You can try this: go to LiveCD PCLOS session and try Menu-->More Applications-->Configuration-->Redo MBR (Restore MBR, LXDE Restore MBR). The last one depends on which version of PCLOS did you install (e.g. KDE, Gnome etc.)

[wavemaker]

Thanks for your swift reply unclev. Machine came with Win7 home premium installed. I put on pclos 2010. I will try as you suggested with reboot to live session.

[uncleV]

I doubt this will solve your problem.

You might follow this instructions. They should work. There is some CLI tweaking so if you aren't sure just ask for clarifications.
Before doing that would you go to /boot/grub/, open with editor the menu.lst file and copy-paste here its content? Care not to change it (don't save it) if you open it as root.

[wavemaker]

Thank you again. At boot up I am offered PCLOS.
PCLOS safe mode. Then windows. If I select to boot PCLOS2010 it starts to go through the motions and by pressing esc to get verbose mode I get: no inittabfound, enter runlevel.

[uncleV]

Hey!
Recently two more guys reported this "no inittab found" error...

I'd propose you install PCLOS once again because it takes you 10-15 minutes only.

But prior to this we have to know your ISO file that you downloaded for PCLOS installation is not corrupted.

Two questions on this: did you do md5sum check of the file? And did you do Media Check that is an option when boot the LiveCD? The last checks for drive/disk errors.

[uncleV]

Man, I'm going offline now, hope another guys would jump in meanwhile.

[wavemaker]

OK mate. I am feeling the pinch myself. Thanks for the help. See you tomorrow.