Fedora crashed at Grub Rescue

[Richard Vickery]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Jim <binarynut at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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<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.
>
>
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Hi Jim,

Being an end user myself, when I first got into Fedora I was losing data
constantly from upgrades, as I assume is common for every new user. It was
very tough to realise that I just wiped out all of the data. A positive
that I took from the experience is that it taught me to always backup; now
that we are upgrading every 6 months I just save everything on an external
drive - nothing on the hard drive except the essentials that need to be on
the computer.

Hope this helps; I really wish there was something that could be done.

Regards,
Richard
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