> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 05:15 -0700, Jesse Hannah wrote: >> I have kind of a unique situation right now, and am hoping someone >> here can help. On my computer I have (had) a dual-boot system, with >> two hard drives and the Grub bootloader: one drive has Windows XP, the >> other had FC2. Yesterday I tried to upgrade to FC3, but whenever I'd >> try to do so I'd get an error saying that it couldn't transfer the >> install image to the hard drive. This was after it'd formatted that >> drive, so I tried to go back and reinstall FC2, but got the same >> error. >> >> Here's where my problem starts. I tried to reboot and go into XP to >> re-format that drive to FAT or something to try to fix the problem, >> but the Grub GUI was gone, and I got the command line interface. I >> thought this might be because of the other drive, so I removed it >> (leaving my XP drive in) and tried again, but this time I got a Grub >> drive error. What I think that's from is that on my main (XP) drive, >> there's something that calls Grub from what was the second (FC) drive, >> but that drive isn't there. >> >> So now I'm stuck: I can't reinstall FC until I fix the drive I was >> using or get a new one, and I can't boot into Windows (where all my >> stuff is) until I do that. Does anyone know how I can fix this, either >> via the Grub command line or by modifying something from a Live CD (I >> have Slax 4.2.0 and Knoppix 3.6)? >> -- >> Jesse (JB) Hannah >> > > If you can get to a grub commandline again > > grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > hd0 is your first ATA disk, hd1 the second and so on > 0 is the first partition, 1 the second etc. > You might have to fiddle with the drive and partition selections > > Once you find your XP partition > chainloader +1 > > I don't recall whether you need to say > boot > > You can also use the help command, there's find to find files (helps > verify you're looking at the right disk). > grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > grub> find /config-2.6.8-1.528.2.10 > (hd0,0) > > grub> help cat > cat: cat FILE > Print the contents of the file FILE. > > grub> > > If you can't get a grub promp0t, boot your install CD in rescue mode or > use a FC rescue disk. > > At worst I'll email you a grub floppy you can write to a real floppy > with rawrite (which should be on your CD). > > > > > if i understood right, you formatted your harddrive (which must be /dev/hdb or so..), so your kernel-images and so in /boot are gone :-( you can try booting with knoppix and fdisk your old linux-partitions on the harddisk, this would make a clean harddisk. format it afterwards directly, with mke2fs (or so...), this made once recognizing my disks again after a freebsd install. HTH Roger Roger
