Hi Michael,
I collected everything you asked for to be able to help me, so I send it
here and I'm very happy that you are willing to support me.
Having said that, please give the instructions as detailed as possible: to
illustrate my newbie-level: it took me some hours, trying and rebooting to
XP (machine only) to search the web to find out how to use a floppy to place
the requested file on. The mount command I already knew, but really writing
to a flop...!
booting from FC Rescue:
* mkdir /mnt/floppy
* mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
* trying to write gave " "..is not a directory"
* trying mount /mnt/floppy gave something like "no /etc/fstab"
* After some time (hrs!) I found (just by reading a lot and more or
less intuitively) that I had simply to do:
* chroot /mnt/sysimage (whatever that me be and do)
* mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
* And then I could simply cp <file> /mnt/floppy and it worked.
So my files are here:
Grub.conf:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,7)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda9
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda8
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,7)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.8-1.521)
root (hd0,7)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.8-1.521.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.8-1.521smp)
root (hd0,7)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.8-1.521smp.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358smp)
root (hd0,7)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358smp.img
title Fedora Core-up (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd0,7)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
device.map:
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
fstab:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda10 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0
0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/windows ntfs auto
/dev/hda5 /mnt/windows ntfs auto
/dev/hda6 /mnt/windows vfat auto
/dev/hda7 /mnt/windows vfat auto
And the ouput of "parted /dev/had print"
As you can see, I installed a driver to read (and write??) NTFS-partitions
(my WinXP) from FC2.
Warning: Unable to determine if partitions are mounted via /proc/mounts or
/etc/mtab. Make sure you don't attempt to resize or modify mounted file
systems. (Even read-only mounted)
Ignore/Cancel? i
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-152627.835 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 1506.093 primary fat16 boot
2 1506.094 11013.310 primary ntfs
3 11013.311 152625.344 extended lba
5 11013.341 42358.886 logical ntfs
6 42358.917 42460.861 logical ext3
7 42460.893 52697.592 logical ext3
8 52697.624 54690.029 logical linux-swap
11 54690.060 85408.066 logical fat32 lba
9 118824.552 149550.402 logical fat32
10 149550.434 152625.344 logical fat32
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
Extra (perhaps it helps and avoids extra mail exchanges), the output of
fdisk -l and fdisk -u -l
fdisk -l /dev/hda:
Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 192 1542208+ 12 Compaq diagnostics
/dev/hda2 193 1404 9735390 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 1405 19457 145010722+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1405 5400 32097838+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 5401 5413 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 5414 6718 10482381 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 6719 6972 2040223+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda9 15149 19065 31463271 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda10 19066 19457 3148708+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda11 6973 10888 31455238+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Fdisk -u -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 63 3084479 1542208+ 12 Compaq diagnostics
/dev/hda2 3084480 22555259 9735390 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 22555260 312576704 145010722+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 22555323 86750999 32097838+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 86751063 86959844 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 86959908 107924669 10482381 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 107924733 112005179 2040223+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda9 243352683 306279224 31463271 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda10 306279288 312576704 3148708+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda11 112005243 174915719 31455238+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Thanks in advance,
Hans Troost
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]
Namens Michael Schwendt
Verzonden: vrijdag 22 oktober 2004 22:32
Aan: For users of Fedora Core releases
Onderwerp: Re: HELP: GRUB or Part. Table damaged by QTPARTED!!
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:41:11 +0200, Hans Troost wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Newbie, but after some troubles got FC2 2.6.8-something running with a
> lot of tools (samba, swat, etc..), then used QTPARTED to create an
> extra FAT32 partition on my disk.
>
> After doing that and rebooting, the system booted, showed the entries
> ofthe c:\boot.ini (WinXP partition) and gave me the possibility to
> choose, all as usual.
>
> The problem:
> Choosed for the FC2 , and the system came up with a text-only screen
> with the grub command prompt.
> * With the rescou disk I was able to
> * Cd /mnt/sysimage
> * Cd to my home directoy: all data (mainly KMAIL files) are still
> there
Fine. Since you've mentioned that you're capable of using the rescue mode,
boot into rescue mode again and retrieve a copies of /boot/grub/grub.conf
and /boot/grub/device.map and /etc/fstab and the output of "parted /dev/hda
print" (substitute hda appropriately). Post them here. Reinstalling GRUB
from within rescue mode should be easy, provided that its configuration is
correct.
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