hi

i need help please

i shrunk a windows partition using qtparted with knoppix and after reboot
it always gives

grub>

and i dont know what to do..

please please help me.. i want to cry

I suggest in future you don't use phrases like this cause otherwise trickykid will come around a beat you down with his big stick. You don't need immediate help, everyone here volunteers their time, time they could be spending on other endeavours and if you mess up your computer then that is unfortunate but not our problem. We'll help you fix it when we feel like it, not when you do.

Now, give me more information or I will beat you down with my considerably smaller but still very sharp stick. Boot from Knoppix and post the output from this command:
From that output, tell us what each partition is exactly. it'll help with our answer and make you think more about exactly what you could have done. Post any errors Grub might display before it reaches that prompt and post the contents of your grub config file, probably /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.conf.

where do i write the

fdisk -l

?

after fdisk -l

disk 40GB /dev/hde

device boot start end blocks id system

hde1 1 1 8001 1 FAT12
hde2 2 4866 .. f w95 ext'd
hde5 2 7 hpfs/ntfs


disk 60GB

/dev/hdg

hdg1 1 1020 ... b w95 FAT32
hdg2 1021 7297 f w95 extd
hdg5 c w95 fat32 lba
hdg 6 82 linux swap
hdg7 83 linux
hdg8 b w95 fat32


in the 40gb drive there should be one partition called E (in windows) and it is ntfs

on the 60 gb it is divided like this:

8 mb drive c (i dont know why)
~7GB drive D, FAT32 where winxp is installed. i guess here it is hdg1 and hdg2
~24GB drive G, FAT32 here it is hdg5
~18GB drive F, FAT32 which is where i cut space for the linux

hdg7 is linux suse 9. hdg6 came with it.


please please tell me what to do now

I cant access /boot/grub/menu.lst from knoppix because it tells me i am not root.

the /boot/grub/menu.lst is from the partition where suse is installed.

what to do now?

i was able to get internet on knoppix so now i can paste it:

root@0[knoppix]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hde: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 1 8001 1 FAT12
/dev/hde2 2 4866 39078112+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hde5 2 4866 39078081 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdg: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdg1 1 1020 8193118+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdg2 1021 7297 50420002+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdg5 1021 3451 19526976 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdg6 3453 3581 1036161 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdg7 3582 4143 4514233+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdg8 4144 6978 22772106 b W95 FAT32

To get access to /boot/grub/menu.lst, open a root shell in knoppix and try the following command:

chroot /dev/hdg7

hdg7 is just a guess form your above post, so change it to the root partition of your broken system. Now try again to access the file.

Oh, I forgot: please post /etc/fstab as well (the one from the broken system).

this is etc/fstab

/dev/hdg8 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hde1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0
/dev/hdg1 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0
/dev/hde5 /windows/E ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hdg5 /windows/F vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0
/dev/hdg6 /windows/G vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0
/dev/hdg7 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0


i cannot do chroot it tells me

root@1[knoppix]# chroot /dev/hdg7
chroot: cannot change root directory to /dev/hdg7: Not a directory

this is from /mnt/hdg7/etc/grub/conf

root (hd1,7)
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd1,7)/boot/grub/menu.lst
quit

Sorry, my mistake!

You need to use the current mountpoint instead of /dev/hdg7

But I think I found the mistake:

Grub is looking for the root filesystem in hd1,7 which is /dev/hdg8 in your case. You need to change this to hd1,6 in order to match the partitions. If the chroot command works, you can try to re-install the bootloader with YaST. Don't forget to adjust /etc/fstab to the new partition scheme: hdg8 has to be changed to hdg7 and hdg7 to hdg6.

You can try to run system repair from the boot CD. This should fix all errors automatically.

See:
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/1...em-Repair.html
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/0..._overview.html

thank you,

however once i repaired the system it tells me it cant fidn windows..

my newbieness overwelms me..

so i am reformatting and installing windows and linux again..

sheesh

Not so fast! Usually it's just a minor adjustment in /boot/grub/menu.lst.

too late.. now nothing works..

thanks a lot for all the instantanous help...

after i install xp again, i'll get suse 9.3 and install it, and continue asking newbie questions, and hopefully annoys the mods less..

thanks again