Hello, i was messing around with the partitions yesterday and i create a mess..

I've Vista and Mandriva 2008.0, and i have moved-resized some partitions and now i cannot boot into mandriva. i managed to restore the gfx grub menu, but it must be a problem with the Linux starting settigs..
if i edit some settings in the grub(i changed sda4->sda5 and so on) at the beggining by pressing F2, i can boot until one point, and im in the console, instead of starting normaly the Mandriva.

with the fdisk -l i get this:

/dev/sda1 NTFS ( Vista)
/dev/sda2 Extended
/dev/sda3 Hidden HPFS/NTFS (this might be the recovery partition 4 vista)
/dev/sda4 Linux/swap
/dev/sda5 Linux (Mandriva)this means (hd0,4) right?
/dev/sda6 Linux/swap

i tried to upgrade them using Mandriva dvd but it said that sda6 has some kind of problem and the upgrade couldnt start.


i tried to reinstall bootloader but i get this error:

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i dont get it, why grub is making root (hd0,6)..the correct path is root (hd0,4)

Any ideas wat i can do?



Thx

Could you post your grub file - /boot/grub/menu.lst

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Steve Stites

thx 4 the fast response..
heres the menu.lst

i changed manually the gfxmenu to (hd0,4) and also the following (hd0,4)'s under title Linux..
also to be able to boot until 1 point to Mandriva, i changed the sda7 and sda4 to sda5

I think that you have your partition names scrambled in menu.lst. Here is the proper correspondence between the Linux partition names and the grub partition names:

You do not have a /dev/sda7. You do not have (hd0,6). You do not have hd1.

I think that your discriptions of what each partition contains is incorrect. You do not have a /dev/sda7 and you do not have (hd0,6). So in your menu.lst the Linux, linux-nonfb, and failsafe title sections all have pointers to a non-existant partition.

Your windows1 title section point to an extended partition which is not bootable.

Your windows2 title section points to a non-existant hard drive.

So you need to get your menu.lst cleaned up and then try to boot again.

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Steve Stites

yes, ur right, i used to have sda7..but i do have hd1 and its only for data, i dont have any OS on that disk..so i will delete extra titles from menu.lst

but i have a problem, i cannot edit the menu.lst, neither with the bootable DVD by entering to console mode, and nor with semi-booting mode that puts me in console.. the menu.lst file is read-only and i cant save it

hey guys i cheated grub !!

With the Mandriva DVD i create a partition 2GB, i installed there Mandriva with only the needed files.
Then i boot 2 new mandriva and add to bootloader the sda5 (my old linux)
And it worked !! now i can boot to my old linux !
But the thing that didnt work is that, i tried to setup the grub again, using my old linux, and it cant overwrite the new grub..

any solution for this?

anw im pleased that i found a way to boot 2 my old Mandriva