On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Alex Makhlin <makhlina@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am running a dual boot system with Vista Ultimate and Fedora 9 / KDE 4 and > last nigh I booted into Vista and deleted one of my NTFS partitions. This > screwed up grub and I was only able to boot into grub command mode. I then > booted my computer with a Fedora rescue disk and typed command grub-install > /dev/sda. After reboot I was able to get the grub menue but when I choose to > boot Fedora I get an error that it can't mount the drive. I am able to > choose "other" and boot into my Vista os but not Fedora. Any help would be > greatly appreciated. > > Alex > > -- > I suspect that when you deleted the NTFS partition, it could have changed the partition numbers on the following partitions. That would break the settings in grub.conf because the boot partition and the root partition are specified there. If you post the grub.conf settings for that kernel and the output from /sbin/fdisk, we might be able to tell you if that's right. I wonder if you had the bad luck to delete a partition that was your previous boot partition. There's no rule that the boot manager has to be installed on the master boot record. It could have been installed in that ntfs drive. The grub.conf file can be set in a variety of ways. The root can be described with something like (hd0,0) or by a uuid, and in the kernel line, you also can use a disk label, a UUID, or a device name like /dev/sda2. If there were just one standard way, I could show you exactly what to do. But they have made this a bit tough to bug-shoot. For what it is worth, I've never had success with the grub-install approach you are taking. It generally does work for me to set use the root() and setup() commands inside grub. Good luck If you do some googling, you will find there are plenty of sites with advice on how to reinstall grub. If you get inside grub, you can get a bit more information by setting the root. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
