i have installed windows xp over fedora 15. How do I recover the fedora bootloader now? in running fdisk -l it displays /dev/sda1 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda2 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda3 ..... .....ntfs /dev/sda4 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda5 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda6 ..... ..... swap /dev/sda7 ..... ..... linux
I tried chroot /mnt/sysimage grub-install /dev/sda7 Ctrl+D (twice) But its not booting. The boot menu appears but error is displayed regarding unable to mount device
On 07/22/2011 02:14 PM, shailesh wrote:
i have installed windows xp over fedora 15. How do I recover the fedora bootloader now? in running fdisk -l it displays /dev/sda1 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda2 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda3 ..... .....ntfs /dev/sda4 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda5 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda6 ..... ..... swap /dev/sda7 ..... ..... linux
I tried chroot /mnt/sysimage grub-install /dev/sda7 Ctrl+D (twice) But its not booting. The boot menu appears but error is displayed regarding unable to mount device
Did you check if the grub.conf file has some wrong information? For example, the root partition is sda7? Did you have a boot partition? Is /etc/fstab consistent? If you can get to the grub menu, you also have the boot console (by pressing 'c'), so you could try things there.
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 12:14 +0000, shailesh wrote:
i have installed windows xp over fedora 15. How do I recover the fedora bootloader now? in running fdisk -l it displays /dev/sda1 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda2 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda3 ..... .....ntfs /dev/sda4 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda5 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda6 ..... ..... swap /dev/sda7 ..... ..... linux
I tried chroot /mnt/sysimage grub-install /dev/sda7 Ctrl+D (twice) But its not booting. The boot menu appears but error is displayed regarding unable to mount device
Grub makes my head ache, but this has worked for me in similar situations:
1) Boot your machine with a Fedora rescue disk (or an install disk in rescue mode). This will find your Linux partition and mount it.
2) Use chroot to change root to the mounted system (i.e. follow the onscreen instructions).
3) Use grub-install(1) to restore the Grub configuration.
Hope that helps.
poc
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