Hi!
Yesterday I resized an FAT32 partition and gained 10GB which I formatted as an EXT-2 using PQ7.0.At the end of the operation,PQ threw an error:
But the new partition looked okay,anyway.
After restarting,I found my system couldn't boot any longer,even to my WinXP.It just kept rebooting,again and again.Then I booted my system under DOS and ran fdisk /mbr.Then I can successfully boot into Windows.
Not wanting to re-install my fedora,I inserted the Fedora DVD and chose to rescue my corrupted fedora,maybe just corrupted GRUB.I used the following commands:
Then I can see the GRUB menu showing three Fedora items--I only installed one, three is because of the system update--and WinXP item.But none of the three fedora items could work,and the error message is:
I want my fedora back!

Insert disc again and go to Rescue mode.

Try re-assigning where the root directory and MBR is. On my installation I would do the following...

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub
root (hd2,0)
setup (hd0)
quit

whereas hd2 = my third hard drive and 0 = partition where /boot/grub is. The setup command sets what drive the MBR is on.

thank you, I'll try.

OK,this is what I got on the screen.I used fdisk to show my partitions,as follows:
sda8 is the swap,and I'm sure sda9 is where my fedora resides in.

I tried what you said and got the following results:
And now my system still doesn't work.

sda9 is the wrong partition - grub can't deal with LVMs. You must have put /boot somewhere else.

You could mount the various linux partition and have a look at each in /boot for your Fedora kernels, or from the grub command line

find vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-41.fc9.x86_64

Hi,

Try to find out where your "/boot" lives.
You can do this from grub> prompt :

This will gives you the partition where your stage1 resides.
Use this partition in your "root statement : grub>root (hdx,y)"

And afterwarts you can do : grub> setup (hd8)


When you have done this : be sure your /etc/fstab points (mounts) to the right /boot partition.

Also try following to show the layout of you HD :

chipotphe:
I just did what you said and the result is(under Fedora9 installation CD's rescue mode)
It doesn't tell me about the partition where /boot resides in.
And I do believe /boot lies in /dev/sda9,as I mentioned above.
You also mentioned /etc/fstab.Well,I viewed this file and here are its contents:
Is this supposed to be right?

I wrote :not :
grub> means : you must beat grub cli.

How to get in grub cli ?

start grub with
# /sbin/grub



you can do then
to setup grub in MBR

Sorry to make you confused.
What I mean is that I input as follows:
then pressed enter and the system answered:
immediately in the next line.And there was no other information.
I'm now thinking about the meaning of in the file /etc/fstab.

You missed the line that said

Huahd, you need to understand that Grub in of itself is almost a mini-OS and you must run the commands we spoke of from it. Therefore, if your prompt is "sh-3.2#", you are not there.

Go back to Rescue mode and do the "chroot /mnt/sysimage" part. Then type the following.

grub (or /sbin/grub)

You will now get the "grub>" prompt. After that, you can perform the other functions like

"find /boot/grub/stage1"

with the information from the above you can then set where your root and setup partitions are.