Quote Originally Posted by tsitras
i am following the above procedure to save my installation of debian. the system is in reiserfs. after booting from the cd i could see the drives. the / is recognised as /mnt/hda2, and /mnt/hda1 is windows. i followed the above procedure and i am getting an error which says "bash: grub-installer : command not recognised"
any ideas?
There seems to be a typo. You need to use grub-install not grub-installer.

Quote Originally Posted by tsitras
i forgot to mention that when i am issuing the grub-install /mnt/hda command, it comes up with an error that it is read-only.
You could try sudo mount -o remount,rw /mnt/hda2. If /mnt/hda2 is already mounted as read-only, then this should make it writable.
You need to do this before the chroot-command.