FC1 boot manager gone bad


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I'm a linux nub, so i don't know how to fix this. Somehow, the Fedora Core 1 boot manager has gone bad and doesn't not show up. Instead, I get some screen called "GNUC" or something that says it allows some bash commands, that its. The most important thing is getting my WinXP partition booted up again. Any advice/tips? Right now I'm using a Knoppix live-cd :) And I don't have a WinXP boot disk either (tried creating one from a download off of microsoft.com, but it doesn't appear to work with Linux.)

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I think the screen is called GRUB. It is the default bootloader for Fedora.

I haven't played around INSIDE of GRUB at all, but you should be able to make repairs there. It sounds like your grub.conf file got corrupted.

Maybe a Google search will help. Especially if you use "GRUB" as a keyword. ;) (click here for a sample result from my quick google search)

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Yea, try checking out your grub.conf from inside Knoppix. If it seems correct, then maybe grub isn't seeing it - when the grub prompt loads up, try: 'configfile (hdn,n)/grub/grub.conf' (where the n's in hdn,n correspond to the numbers of your boot partition)... if that doesn't work, then:

root (hdn,n) <-- where n,n are the numbers corresponding to your windows partition

chainloader +1

boot <-- you may not need to do this

Good luck :)

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i have almost same problem. the MBR is overwritten by WinXP and now i wanna load GRUB with the old Redhat 9 installed but when i try to update by running update from CD it says SWAP partition was not founf and it aborts . the swap and boot partitons are still there but the damn Redhat 9 CD isnt recovering it :(

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Thank you for the helpful replies :) I'll try some of this when I get back on the computer Monday (the computer is at my college house and I went home for the weekend).

Thanks again

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