I've turned my comp on this afternoon and I was amazed to see that it doesn't start normally.

It goes to a bash line in a black screen, I cannot use most of the commands like ls or su etc and it also says 639K Down / 512XYZ upper memory!

I got no clue what to do.
I cannot get to any directories etc.


Have you ever had this sitsuation?
I ran Fedora FC4 and can't allow myself to format since I've got 4 files self written files that I didn't do anybackup yet what so ever.


Please help me as much as possible, me = no life without my fedora

here's a screenshot literaly


http://www.look4anime.com/ssg.jpg

well, maybe all I can really offer you is sympathy, but i'd try sticking your drive in another linux box, and see if you can get the partition to mount there... or if you don't have another box, you could try one of those live linux bootable cd's, like slax,

http://slax.linux-live.org/
http://www.sysresccd.org/

tim

Is this a dual-boot box with $Windows or just a Linux box.
Grub can't find a partition to boot to, is what your problem is.
Do you remember what partitions you allocated for Linux , like /dev/hda2 ,etc?
jim

When you are at the grub > type the command: find /sbin/init and use the results in the next command.
For example, on my box, it looks like this...
grub > find /sbin/init
(hd1,1)

Then, the next command is ...
Note: use the correct info from previous command.
grub > root (hd1,1)
Note: you should see something like this. Hard times may be ahead if you don't
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

Then, the next command is ...
grub > setup (hd0)
Note: you should see something like this...
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd1,1)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/
grub/grub.conf"... succeeded
Done.

grub > quit or reboot