Hi,
Today i accidently deleted my both linux ext3 and SWP partitons (after running bad sectors recovery from HDD, luckily for me i was able to log to shell and restore both or my linux partitons and fat32 i had on same HDD, however, the MBR is lost.... i cannot boot to linux anymore - i can boot from DSL-KNOPPIX and mount the linux main partition and fat32 - all works great so far (read/write on my "lost part.")... i tried to mounting the partition from KNOPPIX and the using " chroot /mnt/hd" command chroot'ing to run "grub-install /dev/hda1" - unfortunately for me chroot returns "input/output error" and i cant run grub-install from cd .. So, i made floppy grub ("grub-floppy") booted from it to Grub runned "setup (hd0)" and got "cannot mount the target partition" sux... btw- "root (hd0,0)" command returns me unknown partition format 0x83 if i remember correctly -- its linux ext3....

oh.. and i already tried using RH9/fedora "linux rescue" boot but it cannot find linux installations... can mount the partition from there but same chroot problem as in Knoppix...

Reinstalling FC3 will solve the problem (i think) but i really dont want to loose my data and i dont want to backing it up from DSL mount reinstallign and restoring-- i ust want to rewrite MBR --- GRUB)

So if anyone have ideas how can i reinstall grub on my system... well write it

Using the grub boot floppy, what do these “find” commands return:

grub> find /grub/stage1
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1

You may have inadvertently changed the partition numbering when you recovered them.

The DSL uses Grub 0.91 but should be alright for re-installing Grub.

Grub always reports the partition ID type 83. The ext3 is reported by Linux only.

If your Fedora partition partition is in hda1 as claimed then in Grub prompt these two lines should your trouble

root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)

You need to tell Grub where it can find the stage1 and stage2 files and that is usually in the root of the Linux or its /boot directory. Without this information Grub can't set it up for you.