On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 14:23 +0000, Kahn Seidl wrote: > /dev/hda1 1 1912 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda2 1913 1925 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 * 1926 3850 15462562+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda4 3851 7296 27679995 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 3851 7296 27679963+ 8e Linux LVM > this looks like /dev/hda2 should be /boot. The line in grub.conf to access that for booting would be root (hd0,1) Similarly with FC3 on whatever disk it is on. > > > please note this is from a freshly installed fc4, not fc3. I would like to > retrieve my fc3 back. > > martin > > >From: Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >Subject: Re: grub.conf emptied, and now i get kernel panic? > >Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:05:13 +0930 > > > >On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:25 +0000, Kahn Seidl wrote: > > > > > any other suggestions? or did i do something and screw up big time? > > > everybody else is telling me just to drop it and forget it, but I want > >to > > > understand what I did so I dont do it again. > > > >Are your partitions actually labelled as you think they are? Are you > >accessing the right partitions. Post the output from fdisk -l for us to > >see (that's a lowercase L after the dash). You'll need to be root. > > > >-- > >Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > >I read messages from the public lists. > > > >-- > >fedora-list mailing list > >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >