I've tried to reinstall GRUB but couldnt' do so. I booted from FC1 CD in rescue mode, but it could not find any linux partitions on my machine and just gives me a shell prompt. This is why i couldn't execute next two commands;
chroot /mnt/sysimage -- /mnt/sysimage does not exist.
grub-install -- command does not exist.
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Vikas
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Uttered Vikas.Bhasin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, spake thus:
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 1216 9767488+ 7
> HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 1217 4864 29302560 f Win95
> Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda3 2433 4864 19535008+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda5 1217 1229 104359+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 1230 2302 8618841 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 2303 2432 1044193+ 82 Linux swap
> sh-2.05b#
>
> There are linux partitions but i'm not sure why the start and end of
> blocks are overlapping for different partitions. Looking at above output,
> do you think previous linux installation can be saved.
No, the overlapping Linux partitions are just occupants of an
extended partition. Extended partitions let us get past the
4-partition limit endemic to living in a DOS-legacy world.
Looks like to me that you've just lost the GRUB/lilo bootloader.
That's easy to get round.
Boot back into rescue mode. Run "fsck /dev/hda[56]" to make sure
that the Linux partitions are undamaged. Then reinstall GRUB:
# grub-install /dev/hda
You should be able to boot Linux. If your GRUB doesn't already point
to the Winders partitions, just add a clause like the following to
your "/etc/grub.conf" file:
title Windoze
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
Hope this helps. Cheery-bye.
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