dual boot problemhelp

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:10:01 -0800, questions?

Caveat: No personal experience with FC4 DVD.

CAUTION: I have made certain buttumptions about your disk's parbreastion table. You will need to adjust the values I have used to be correct for your system's actual parameters. I have also not tested this with FC4, so this advice may be worth exactly what you paid for it. Hopefully, someone will correct specifics which are bogus for FC4.

Reading this file:

shows there is a rescue mode. Type this at the prompt:

linux rescue

Once you're running FC4 in rescue mode, then you should be able to fix your loader by reinstalling Grub at the MBR.

To complete the fix you'll need details of how your disk parbreastions are buttigned. If you don't know (or what I'm talking about), then post the results to this file when you're running the rescue disk:

{FC4 root}-etc-fstab

Correct the table below for your system. This may be getting a little too far ahead on the problem, but I will use the following buttumptions

Primary IDE Disc (hda): Parbreastion buttigned To 1 Windows 2 ? 3 FC4 boot 4 extended 5 FC4 root

Steps: 1. Mount the parbreastion with FC4's root filesystem. 2. chroot over to it.

# mkdirmnt-hda5 # mountdev-hda5mnt-hda5 # cdmnt-hda5 # chroot .

3. If you are using a boot parbreastion, mount that parbreastion.

# mkdirmnt-bootfix # mountdev-hda3mnt-bootfix # which grub

If grub is not found, then you'll need someone else to help you with the specifics of fixing FC4.

4. Fix grub.

# grub --no-floppy

Watch for any errors.

5. Unmount boot (if mounted).

# umountdev-hda3

6. End chroot.

# exit

7. unmount root.

# umountmnt-hda5

8. Reboot. Grub should be fixed.

Just so you know, that's about all the time I have for this right now. I'm not being rude if I don't offer more help immediately to followup questions.

-- Douglas Mayne