Subject: How to load Linux from GRUB? 2005-11-05 - By peter wu
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Steven and Aaron,
Thanks for your kind replies. I tried what you've
suggested; however, I am afraid it's really screwed up
(unless I am doing something wrong). While trying to
run Rescue mode by pressing CONTINUE, I get the
following msg:
You don't have any Linux partition. Press return to
get a shell. The system will reboot automatically when
you exit from the shell.
Then I get this msg followed by a promt:
When finished please exit from the shell and your
system will reboot.
sh-3.00#
At the shell promt, I tried the following:
sh-3.00# ls
sh-3.00# cd mnt
sh-3.00# ls
runtime source
I can somehow get to mnt directory, but there are only
two directories, and there is no sysimage directory.
Am I missing something, or am I truely hosed? Do I
need to format the entire hard drive and reinstall?
Thank you for your help, in advance.
--peter
--- akonstam@(protected) wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:59:36PM -0800, peter wu
> wrote:
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > I had a dual-boot (Windows XP on NTFS and Linux),
> but
> > I wanted to partition the C: drive where Windows
> XP
> > was installed. I used Partition Magic to first
> resize
> > C: drive to a smaller one, and then create a new
> > partition with a letter G. However, somehow,
> Partition
> > Magic screwed up, now I can't seem to boot to
> Linux,
> > whereas I can still boot to Windows from GRUB by
> the
> > following:
> >
> > GRUB> rootnoverify (hd0,1)
> > GRUB> chainloader +1
> > GRUB> boot
> >
> > I tried to boot to Linux by doing the following:
> >
> > GRUB> root (hd0,9)
> > GRUB> kernel / <tab>
> > GRUB> kernel /boot <tab>
> >
> > But it doesn't seem to find vmlinuz... in /boot.
> When
> > I do "kernel / <tab>" it gives the "possible"
> > commands. I am wondering if there is any command
> > (possibly kernel command?) which lists the entire
> > directory (like ls in Unix or dir in DOS).
> >
> > I looked at PartitionMagic, but depressingly, all
> > partitions for Linux seem to have zero unused
> space,
> > i.e., everything appears to be used. (e.g., size
> MB:
> > 27,956.0; Used MB: 27,956.0 and Unused MB: 0.0)
> >
> > Can I somehow recover from this? Should I reformat
> > everything, I am afraid?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --peter
>
> --
> Well that depends on how shrewed up the partition
> table really is. I
> would boot linux rescue, chroot to /mnt/sysimage
> which should be your
> / Linux partition, then do a fdisk.
> fdisk can re-establish the partition table. Then if
> that works create
> a grub.conf, do a grub-install and you should be in
> business.
>
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