hello ,

im new to fourms definately i try to read as many forms as possible still i got one problem....


i have win 98 win xp and some dump on my 40 gb hdd,,,and at the last partition i have fc1 installed..


now i reinstalled xp definately by which my grub or lilu whichever has gone i DONT have fc1 boot disk or any install. dsk . plz help me " to boot to fc1 back again " as well as to dos partiotons ,

and what i know is u can dwnld grub or lilu and inst. it and next time u boot to system u see the choice menu dos/fc am i right?

i have partition magic on 98 ,shows me fc there,, is there any software i install that brings back all boot os, but free????????

:-)

All you need is the first ISO image which you can download from the Fedora web site;

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...i386-disc1.iso

Boot from the burned CD into rescue mode (type 'linux rescue' when the menu screen is displayed). Answer a few questions and read the on screen messages, pay extra attention to the chroot screen. When ready follow the advice on using chroot then when done type something like;

/sbin/grub-install --recheck /dev/hda

Reboot the system the bootloader grub should now be active.

hey thanks , now ill try :-0 :-)

i followed the steps

linux resuce
follow the steps
> >>>>>>>>>chroot bereen i did not understand

still i got the prompt after the ?n/w interface on this system Yor n


i typed the same command line # output no file or directory

then second time i tried the question was contineu read only or skip i choose contineu , the prompt appeared and then the system restarted automatically,...


next time same i choose the option read only then again i type / sbin/ grub-install-recheck/dev/hda

same no such file system or directory...
i guess this chroot bereen is not the right path or command or root....

k what do i dooo...

spel check

The chroot command should be something like; chroot /mnt/sysimage

Your right nothing is presented on screen afterwards when use the command, but this expected and normal. When you used the the grub-install command the you get an output when done. The grub-install utility cannot work with read-only filesystems.

Sample output from the grub-install command;

# grub-install --recheck /dev/hda
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Could not find device for /dev/mapper/*
Could not find device for /dev/mapper/*
Could not find device for /dev/mapper/*
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda

Please modify the grub-install command to match your system your first(only) hard drive might be known as something like sda in Linux, to find out type;

fdisk -l

.

hey
i know this time i tried the command with the right spacing and i am getting the error unrecognized command

when i type # grub-install --recheck(space)/dev/hda
i get no file or directory when i type
#grub-install --recheck(no space)/dev/hda
i get the msg unrecognized something then the grub help is loaded
defining the correct way to put the syntax

i guess the recheck command is not working ok.

cauz its not recognizing the recheck syntax or something...

grub-install --recheck/dev/hda
i even tried hdb and sda and hda9 still nothing......

mabe im not able to use the recheck command.. thats the truth..

in the help its stated --reccheck to map the device something

how do i choose or USE THE COMMAND...
and finaly use the grub ;-)

Do you have an IDE drive in place as the master drive on the primary IDE channel???

Take a look at the typed commands;

fdisk -l
cat /boot/grub/grub.conf

The second one should give you a clue;

Your clue is the last line above, the output from the fdisk command should help also and the grub-install command does have a space in it.

:-) ill try though things rnt clear...