you should still be able to rescue this with a rescue disk as mentioned
, edit the grub file to point the bootloader at the correct
partitions/volumes so that it gets the correct boot files from the
correct partition/boot info as per
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=996
good luck
________________________________
From: David Merriman [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, 13 January 2009 10:00 am
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Unable to boot
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Steve <[email protected]>
wrote:
Looking at your setup, I'd say that you put the drives
back in in the wrong order, so that sda - with the bootstrap - is now
sdb. Whether you can recover from this now, I'm not too sure. Still
worth a try though (:
Steve
I'll check that out, though I suspect I've done too much damage
now :)
Thanks,
David
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:51:32 +1300
David Merriman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, I've got a problem which I'm unable to fix,
and I need a little
> help. I've done some fiddling, and now I can't boot up
my machine any more.
> Here's the background:
>
> I have two removable SATA drive bays in my PC.
Normally I have two drives
> sitting in there, one with SuSE 10.3 (my normal
system) and SuSE 11.1 on it,
> and the other with a single FAT32 partition with a
bunch of video files on
> it.
>
> From memory (I'm at work at the moment), the
partitions are set up as
> follows:
> sda1 - 1GB boot partition
> sda5 - 2GB swap
> sda6 - 30GB SuSE 11.1 (/)
> sda7 - 60GB SuSE 11.1 (/home)
> sda8 - 20GB SuSE 10.3 (/)
> sda9 - 150GB SuSE 10.3 (/home)
> sdb5 - 160GB FAT32
>
> Last week I bought a new drive, took out the other two
drives, and plugged
> this one in. I intend(ed) to use this drive as a
playpen, just to mess about
> with different flavours of Linux, and so far it has
PCLinuxOS, Mepis and
> Linux Mint on it. That worked fine.
>
> Later I put my original drives back in, intending to
boot up SuSE 10.3
> again, but the system stopped after the BIOS check,
with the word 'GRUB' in
> the top-left corner. Now normally it says 'GRUB
Loading Stage 1.5' (I
> think), and half the time it will hang at that point
anyway, requiring a
> reboot, but it's always done that (that may be a
symptom in itself). This
> time it just said 'GRUB', and stopped.
>
> I assumed that GRUB or some part of the boot sequence
had got corrupted
> (don't ask me how, the drives were just sitting on the
desk until I plugged
> them back in...), so I booted off my SuSE 11.1 DVD,
selected 'Boot from hard
> disk', and was then able to boot from the hard disk as
usual.
>
> I then tried using the recovery utilities on the DVD
to fix the boot issue,
> and that's when things started to get worse. I first
ran the automatic
> recovery utility; it said some part of the boot
sequence was incorrect, and
> attempted to fix it. I was still unable to boot, so
then I tried the manual
> recovery method, trying various combinations of
booting from the Master Boot
> Record, from the boot partition, the root partition,
rewriting the MBR, etc.
> etc. Long story short, no matter what I tried it
wouldn't boot up, and now
> I'm at the point where I can't boot at all, and I'm
stuck.
>
> I wasted over 3 hours on it last night, and I've
exhausted my admittedly
> limited knowledge (and patience). Short of
reinstalling, I dont' know what
> else to try, so I'm hoping that one of you kind souls
will be able to have a
> look at this machine for me, and hopefully get it back
into a working
> state. I'm happy to pay for your time in whatever
fashion you prefer,
> money, blank disks, whatever.
>
> If anyone is able to help, I'd be most grateful. As I
say, I'm at work at
> the moment, so I can't run any commands on the machine
for you, but I'll try
> and answer any other questions you may have.
>
> Thanks,
> David Merriman
> --
> Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be
kicked.
>
--
Steve <[email protected]>
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