Hi, I think the message was clear. After booting with Linux Rescue, at the command prompt, try this: # chroot /mnt/sysimage You should see all you files there. You may want to try to re-install GRUB to the MBR: # grub-install /dev/hda (hda or sda for IDE or SCSI hard disk) HTH, Khem ________________________________________ From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M.K Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 3:38 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Help Please Can I reinsall FC 2 without losing my data I installed Fedora core 2 server six month ago and it worked fine. Yesterday after turn off the computer the system did not boot. The server upon reboot will get stuck at then At grub boot screen I removed "rhgb quiet" and rebooted it. I got more messages but stuck at the same message. INIT: version 2.85 booting I reboot the computer And used FC2's First CD with Linux rescue mode I did not get any errors . after continuing many steps the message I got " Your system is mounted under the /mnt/sysimage directory" and the shell prompt came. sh-2.05b# The result of "ls" command: bin etc linuxra mnt oldtmp sbin sys usr dev lib lost+fund modules proc selinux temp var My question is if I reinstall FC2 without any modification on dsk partitions, is it possible to loose my data "database and programs" that I have under usr/local/ ? Thanks mkohan
