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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Unforgiven1 on 20 December 2003, 21:34

Title: desperately need help
Post by: Unforgiven1 on 20 December 2003, 21:34
I deleted the Linux partition on my desktop computer the other day and resized it so it would be a part of the windoze partition (Fedora has a memory leak or something) but I restarted it today, and grub appeared, but not normal graphical grub, grub .92 a command line version.  Now I can't get it to let me boot into windoze, (or any OS) anyone know how to either get rid of grub without being able to enter anything but the  Bios, or make it boot to windoze. It says it cant boot without the kernel being installed...any help? ASAP please
Title: desperately need help
Post by: Stryker on 20 December 2003, 17:52
yeah
in your grub prompt something like this:

rootnoverify(hd0,0)
chainloader +1
boot
Title: desperately need help
Post by: Unforgiven1 on 20 December 2003, 22:30
that didn't work  :(
is there a way other than tab to go to a new line?
Title: desperately need help
Post by: BouncingAyatollah on 21 December 2003, 01:13
You deleted the grub "stages" and the config (which were most likely on the linux partition). If you just need to boot Winbloat (only) again boot with the Win rescue/boot floppy and do an install from the Win CD (*NOT* format and install, just install), this will overwrite grub with the normal Win MBR again.

Always keep a "something" you can boot with even if the MBR is cheesed handy, e.g. a Knoppix CD, a System Rescue CD, Win boot floppy, linux boot floppy - preferably (e) All of the above  (http://smile.gif)
Title: desperately need help
Post by: Unforgiven1 on 21 December 2003, 01:22
that's exactly how I decided to fix it....lol
I'll have her fixed as soon as it finishes installing and I get treated like a criminal by M$ some more  :(
Title: desperately need help
Post by: Stryker on 21 December 2003, 02:12
press enter, they are 3 different commands you have to send
rootnoverify(hd0,0) <enter>
chainloader +1 <enter>
boot <enter>
Title: desperately need help
Post by: BouncingAyatollah on 21 December 2003, 02:48
For future, (I haven't done this myself, /me makes note), you can get utilities to save the Win MBR as a file on floppy to restore it in a couple of secs.

For linux, a boot floppy for your particular linux setup is handy, saving a "linux MBR" would not save the grub stages and config, as you found. However with linux, you can always boot with Knoppix, SuseLive or MandrakeMove and get into your linux partitions like that to sort things out.

Another idea is to make an image of the partition(s). I used partimage to make an image of my (fully WinUpdated) Win partition, it restores in 4 mins! I also made images of my Suse setup too. Very handy.
Title: desperately need help
Post by: WMD on 21 December 2003, 05:50
quote:
Originally posted by BouncingAyatollah:
For future, (I haven't done this myself, /me makes note), you can get utilities to save the Win MBR as a file on floppy to restore it in a couple of secs.


You can do that just by going to the DOS prompt and typing fdisk /MBR.  (http://smile.gif)   (However XP and 2000 don't have this feature  :(  )
Title: desperately need help
Post by: BouncingAyatollah on 21 December 2003, 06:59
quote:
You can do that just by going to the DOS prompt and typing fdisk /MBR.  (However XP and 2000 don't have this feature  )  


Aaaah, nice one, I could never get this to work, not surprising since I kept being told it was format /MBR ! D'oh! Cheers.
Title: desperately need help
Post by: Unforgiven1 on 21 December 2003, 10:58
ah it's good to reformat sometimes...every now and then the old porn collection needs a few fresh...errr...faces.