Hello,

After resizing partition following directions on the LFS book and
elsewhere, I get only to GRUB rescue mode now.

My original partitions were:

*******************************************
/dev/sda1    Linux ext4         start at 2048 ................end at
974694399     on a 464 GB hard disk
/dev/sda2    Extended
/dev/sda5    swap partition

/dev/zram0
/dev/zram1


Host system is Lubuntu 16.04 LTS on Intel PC. I was going to create a 20 GB
partition named /dev/sda3
by reducing the size of /dev/sda1 using fdisk.

I was able to get 'version-check.sh' to run ok in preparation, as described
in LFS book. But after using fdisk and rebooting, I only get GRUB rescue
prompt now. Searched many forums, one specially got my
attention (https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2213466), also
Google'd as (
https://www.google.com/search?ei=2I4OW8b3NYnXzgL9noLQCA&q=reboot+only+gives+grub+rescue+prompt+not+able+to+reboot+from+disk&oq=reboot+only+gives+grub+rescue+prompt+not+able+to+reboot+from+disk&gs_l=psy-ab.3...596982.615277.0.616448.77.71.2.0.0.0.489.11166.0j24j13j9j1.47.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..30.30.6790...0j0i67k1j0i10k1j0i10i67k1j0i22i30k1j0i22i10i30k1j33i160k1j33i21k1.0.EdD6Qjtxbo0)
but haven't found a way out just as yet. Tried booting from liveCD of
Lubuntu, also Boot Repair and GParted ISO's, but it does not boot from
CD/DVD, only has option from floppy and hard disk as Boot First device on
Boot Menu of BIOS.

Here are some standard output from "grub rescue>" when turning computer on:


error: attempt to read or write outside of partition
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue> ls
(hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos1) (fd0)
grub rescue>ls (hd0)/boot
error: unknown filesystem.
grub rescue> ls (hd0,msdos5)/boot
error: unknown filesystem.
grub rescue> ls (hd0,msdos1)/boot

error: attempt to read or write outside of partition
grub rescue> ls /
./ ../ lost+found/ etc/ media/ var/ bin/ boot/ dev/ home/ lib/ mnt/ .ssh/
proc/ root/ run/ sbin/ vmlinuz srv/ sys/ tmp/ usr/ initrd.img
initrd.img.old .rpmdb/ snap/ cdrom/ opt/ core vmlinuz.old forcefsck
grub rescue> set root=(hd0)/
grub rescue> insmod linux
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
grub rescue> _

Hope someone can point a way out of this situation as I resolved to finally
improve my Linux skills and installing LFS on a 2006 desktop is a first
test.
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