On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 17:13 -0400, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > Sounds strange to you too? It does to me, here\s what\s happening... > > I recently installed win2000 at the front of my drive, knowing it > would mess my boot loader (grub) but expecting I could fix it, I have > before. > > So I threw in FC3 disk one, got to the command line chrooted to > /mnt/sysimage and ran grub/install hd0. Maybe that wasn\t a good idea > after all... > hd0 is not a valid name in fedora. Did you mistype and mean hda, or did you maybe do /dev/hda0 (again invalid)? > On rebooting it seemed to work when I booted into windows so I thought > I\d try fc3 and rebooted. Grub Error 22, something about can\t find > stage1-5. So, I put FC3 Disk1 in again and ran that - this time it > refuses to mount the old system saying "no linux partitions found" - > my blood pressure rises... > > I thought "that can\t be and threw in PartitionMagic - "partition > Table error", So I tried Knoppix, it found two drives, one the win2000 > partition and the other and unmountable, unrecognised section. It > should have found about 7. > > So, I guessed that I\d somehow lost my partitions and went looking for > a solution. Found TestDisk, got win2000 installed again - that being > the only partition I could risk playing with. Ran TestDisk, great wee > program, worked fine, found the 'deleted' partitions and restored them > - windows could see the big fat32 partition with all my non-system > files and things looked good. But then as I went through the process > of getting grub working, same as above - it did the same thing again. > The instructions for reinstalling grub on a dual boot system with a simgle IDE drive are: 1. boot to rescue mode (you have done that several times) 2. chroot /mnt/sysimage (you did that as well) 3. grub-install /dev/hda (your text above says you may have flubbed this step) If you use any other partition name it WILL NOT get written to the MBR, and MAY corrupt your drive (as you have done). > So now I\m using gmails web interface and Knoppix and hoping someonw > knows what's going on - I'm going to bed. > > Duncan >
