qn reg. bootloader...grub
 

I have a Windows XP Pro machine on which I installed Fedora Core 1 ( sometime ago ) to make it a dual boot machine. The machine was configured to have an NTFS partition and a FAT32 partition along with a partition for Fedora Core 1. Upon booting, the Grub bootloader would prompt for selection of either Windows or Fedora and things worked fine, until,I converted the FAT32 partition into an NTFS partion which then I split into a smaller FAT32 partition ( around 2 GB ) and an NTFS partition ( using Partition Magic 8.0 ), leaving the Linux partition untouched. Grub loader worked fine upon rebooting the machine the next time and booted the desired OS. However today ( the second time after changing and splitting the original partition ) when I started my machine, Grub would not provide an option to boot the desired OS - supporting only a minimal BASH-like editing mode. Get the following on the screen :

GRUB version 0.93 ( 639K lower / 523072K upper memory )

[Minimal BASH-like line editing is .......

grub>

instead of the window with the option to select the desired OS to boot.

Could anyone help and give me a suggestion?????

grub no longer recongises some of its booting options

choose my bootloader troubleshooter to find each (new) parttion then use commands to boot into MS or linux. write down the commands that got you in.

then go into linux and amend the /boot/grub/menu.lst file with root powers to fix then reboot to test you have your menu back.

2) if thats too hard use a knoppix cd to mount each partition and peep inside them

convert each partition of interest into grub speak hda X = (hd0, X minus 1) then edit the mounted parition that has your /boot/grub/menu.lst file to the new values.
eg hda1 = (hd0,0)

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