[SOLVED] Linux not booting

sunveer · 07-12-2012, 08:25 AM

I created a new partition using fdisk -cu /dev/sda and then after writing partition table to disk, I rebooted the system.

After rebooting, I am getting

grub >

grub >

I have tried

grub > find /boot/grub/stage1

&

grub > find /grub/stage1

Both returns error 15 : file not found.

However, on running
grub> root

I get (hd0, 5)

Soadyheid · 07-12-2012, 08:59 AM

Quote:

after writing partition table to disk

Writing the partition table to the disk blows away any previous information which would have been used to find your Linux install. If you want to change/add partitions to an existing system you should use parted or Gparted
Writing the partition table is usually done BEFORE you format a partition prior to an install. I've no idea if you can recover from this other than a fresh install.

Play Bonny!

sunveer · 07-12-2012, 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soadyheid

Writing the partition table to the disk blows away any previous information which would have been used to find your Linux install. If you want to change/add partitions to an existing system you should use parted or Gparted
Writing the partition table is usually done BEFORE you format a partition prior to an install. I've no idea if you can recover from this other than a fresh install.

Play Bonny!

But I followed the same steps as given in Red Hat Documentation.

lemonslol · 07-12-2012, 10:12 AM

Ok from my understanding run

Code:

fdisk-l

and post what it spits out. but from there you can use something like gparted and just recover the partition table

chrism01 · 07-12-2012, 07:48 PM

You'll need a space the

Code:

fdisk -l

& that's a lowercase L, but this assumes you can get a normal cmd line to access.

Can you tell us exactly what distro+version of Linux you have?

sunveer · 07-12-2012, 10:57 PM

I checked using fdisk -l and found only one linux partition with unknown file system type.

The solution I could try is to reinstall the os.