On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:13:50PM -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... > > 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. > > So now I\m using gmails web interface and Knoppix and hoping someonw > knows what's going on - I'm going to bed. > > Duncan One thing to try is not to use grub-install which is flaky on some systems and results in the error messages you report. Instead type the commands: grub > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) > quit ======================================================================= When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
