I (used to) have a windows xp partition (ntfs) and a linux ext3 partition, which would boot just fine with grub.... In an attempt to take space from the windows partition and put it in the linux partition, I tried to resize the windows partition using Partition Magic...

Well the damn thing gave me an error while it was half-way through the resizing process, and I could not boot windows. This is fine, since I barely use winxp anymore. Linux still booted just fine, and I was happy (as long as I could recover some important files from the winxp partition, which I did)

Anyway, to recover the files from the WinXP partition, I took out the disk from my computer, then put it in another computer (that also has XP) and used a nifty application that works to recover data from screwed up ntfs drives (it's called getbackdata for ntfs... it's awesome)

The problem now is that when I put back my disk in the original computer, now Linux doesn't wanna boot. I read somewhere that the MBR (master boot record) is usually in the windows partition, which is a problem because I erased the windows partition... lol so I guess I'm in a lot of trouble....

I have my linux boot partition on another disk (I did this to prevent things like THESE to happen... heh), So when I boot from the disk that has the boot partition in, an older version of grub than I used to have appears... I choose Linux, and it boots, just not on the right kernel... I have kernel 2.6.5, and it boots a 2.2.x-x kernel!

Maybe this is a defense mechanism thing that Linux has in case it's not possible to boot the other kernel... I don't know. I'll be happy if I can just call the right grub version, and boot my actual 2.6.5 kernel... help anyone?

Thanks in advance for any guide.

edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file
somthing like

root (hd0,0)
default=0
timeout=10
title linux
kernel /path/to/kernel2.6 root=/dev/your_root_partiton
initrd /path-to/initrd

Thanks for replying...

I did that, and it still does the same thing... what does the hd1,1 or hd0,0 mean?

Anyway I'm thinking of just downloading fedora core and installing it anew... I was thinking of doing that before all this trouble happened. I just don't wanna see my data destroyed that's all

lol...

(hd0,0) = the hard drive that grub just beeoted partiton 1
(hd0,1) = the hard drive that grub just booted partiton 2
(hd1,0) = the other hard drive partiton 1
(hd1,1) = the other hard drive partiton 2

if you are giving the correct path to a 2,6 kernel then the 2.6 kernel will boot.
please post your grub.conf file.