On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:20:07 +0200, Hans Troost wrote: > 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...! The simplest way for Linux newbies is to use mtools: mformat A: mcopy file A: mdir A: > So my files are here: > > Grub.conf: /dev/hda8 = /boot partition = (hd0,7) for GRUB, partition table does not agree. > fstab: > > /dev/hda10 swap swap defaults 0 0 Partition table does not agree either. > 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 These two, /dev/hda6 and /dev/hda7, are your /boot and root partitions. Not /dev/hda8 as in grub.conf. > 8 52697.624 54690.029 logical linux-swap Here /dev/hda8 is the swap partition, whereas previously it was /dev/hda10, see fstab. Editing your partition table reordered the partitions. > 11 54690.060 85408.066 logical fat32 lba > 9 118824.552 149550.402 logical fat32 > 10 149550.434 152625.344 logical fat32 So, let's see: /dev/hda5 : NTFS /dev/hda9, 10, 11 : FAT32 /dev/hda6 : ext3 => /boot partition (due to its small size) /dev/hda7 : ext3 => root partition /dev/hda8 : Linux swap 1.) You would need to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and replace (hd0,7) with (hd0,5) everywhere, so GRUB finds your /boot partition again. (hd0,5) is /dev/hda6, your /boot partition 2.) You would need to edit /etc/fstab and make the swap partition be /dev/hda8 instead of /dev/hda10. Take out or correct the entries for your /mnt/windows partitions, as they are wrong, too. 3.) You would need to reinstall GRUB into your /boot partition. You can do that within the rescue chroot: grub-install /dev/hda6 In case you edit the copies of these files with Windows XP, be sure to use a text editor which can edit and save Unix-style files. Else you would need to process them with dos2unix when you're back in Linux. [...] Alternatively, what I would try: boot your XP bootloader, choose Linux, and at the GRUB command prompt (you mentioned your system doesn't boot further), enter: root (hd0,5) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.8-1.521.img boot That should start your system normally, albeit fail to activate the swap space. The first thing you would need to do is to fix things 1, 2, 3 as described above. -- Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux 2.6.8-1.541 loadavg: 0.03 0.48 0.78
