Fedora crashed at Grub Rescue

[Jim]

On 06/27/2012 08:37 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 18:44 -0400, Jim wrote:
>> grub rescue>     in fedora 17 .
>>
>> What CD do I use to get into  chroot /mnt/sysimage ,    F17 Live CD ??
> I used the "Fedora 17 Desktop Edition" install disk for a recovery disk.
> I downloaded it from here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options
>
> When you boot up you'll get a menu.  The second option is the "repair"
> option if I recall correctly and that's what you're looking for.


After further test with Gparted and Smartctl I found out I no longer 
have the  /  and /home partitions on the drive.

And smartctl  shows that hard drive has failures and old-age problems.

I just installed Fedora 17 on the hard drive three days ago.