[SOLVED] Deleted Partitions, cannot escape grub rescue mode

michaelk · 02-04-2015, 06:26 PM

Don't use OS X all that much but /dev/disk2s2 is disk 2 partition 2. The correct syntax is to use the drive ID i.e. /dev/disk2.

Total_Novice · 02-04-2015, 07:52 PM

michaelk,

Well now I feel stupid...

But still the media fails the check I described earlier. This is a different USB stick than before. Will try to boot with it nevertheless...

Wow. It looks like it's working...amazing. Thank you.

Total_Novice · 02-04-2015, 09:31 PM

So my current plan to fix this is to run Gparted, create a Windows 7 partition, install Windows, then install F21. But...

It would be really great if I could salvage my data. GParted shows only

Partition File System Size Used Unused
/dev/sda1 ext4 465.76 GB 145.68 MiB 354.32 MiB

Is there any chance to save my data or should I proceed with the repartition/reformat/reinstall?

Total_Novice · 02-05-2015, 01:15 AM

I will use the Fedora Live boot disk, install Testdisk, and attempt to recover from there.

EDDY1 · 02-05-2015, 02:28 AM

unetbootin is faster than installing another os.