On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 11:08:27AM -0500, Joe Krahn wrote: > I have a RedHat 7.2 system with a 40G IDE disk. > Using the grub "hide" command destroyed my partition table. > Here's the approximate disk layout: > > Four primary partitions, no extended. > hda1=ext2, 4G > hda2=ext2, 4G > hda3=Linux swap, 1G > hda4=fat32, 31G > > I tried "hide (hd0,3)". The command was accepted, but hda4 > was not hidden. I tried hiding one of the ext2 partitions. > I think it was hda1, which contains the /boot/grub data directory, > with "hide (hd0,1)" > Now entering "geometry (hd0)" shows nothing. > No unhide commands will work. > > Possible non-standard" things are the use of all four primary > partitons, no extended ones, and having a large LBA partition. > Also, can "hiding" the ext2 directory with /boot/grub mess things > up?
yes, thats where grub reads the grub.conf file from. you need to boot from a bootdisk and use fdisk to change the partition type back to ext2. > Grub still loads at boot time, but the menus, etc., are all gone. > > Do you have any ideas of whatcould have happened? > I can try to repeat it and get a copy of the before and after > if this looks like a bug that isn't already fixed. _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
