HeavyTwenty Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 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.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 30, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 30, 2004 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG-Cloud Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 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 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 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 :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyTwenty Posted January 31, 2004 Author Share Posted January 31, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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