Dear All,

I am using dual boot laptop with Win Vista and FC 9. Accidentally, I used recovery manager in Vista. Now, I could not boot to FC 9 part. One way that I know is to boot with boot CD in rescue mode, but I donot have the CD presently. I am in an urgent situation. How can I recover, will any body help me in booting to FC core 9 without having the boot CD?

snborah

windows overwrites boot records because it imagines them to be corrupt regularly. to get around that, I save them with dd and simply blast them back

You need a boot loader --> kernel & root filesystem.

Have you tried loadlin.exe? or
http://www.toms.net/rb or
www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

You need a Linux distro or the SUper Grub disk to restore GRUB.

From any linux disk, at the boot prompt:

type grub

Then from the next prompt type

The 0,0 may be different for your system.
Then type
Have a read of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...part=1&chap=10 from the section Code Listing 2.7: Starting the GRUB shell about half way down.

Windows has reset your MBR, which you need to reset.
Startup with your Fedora disk, and continue as for reinstalling Fedora. At MBR option, choose to install fresh MBR (rather than repair). After reboot MBR will be reset correctly. This method worked for me.

I understand that you no longer have the install media for linux. Is that correct?

Some things you could try:

* In windows, download the iso file for your distro from the distros' site and burn it to the proper media, then reboot with it in rescue mode.

* Download a general boot image file (I recommend Hiren's Boot CD) and use it to boot linux in ram, then mount your existing / partition in say, /mnt, then chroot into it. Then use grub-install to reinstall GRUB to the MBR.

* After you recover your GRUB boot, backup your MBR (read man grub).

Tom