grub won't load fedora 4, rescue disk says partition is unformatted!
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You’re getting error messages that I don’t usually see.
Something is amiss with hda3 with respect to an ext3 filesystem, so you don’t have much to loose by saying “y”. It doesn’t appear to be functional now and may not be after “y”.
Well, if I can save my hard drive by taking it to a local computer shop for a hard drive recovery, will hitting <y> wreck any chances I have for saving what's on it??
when the system boots and shows grub,
1. type your "root (hdx,x) " command first
2. then type chainloader +1
This is because there is another grub at the partition where it is installed probably.
Tell me if it works. I load the same way here. If u have grub on a seperate partition instead of MBR, it happens
At some point in the near future, you should backup /boot and run e2fsck on hda3 from rescue mode without mounting the installation.
For example, you could create /root/boot_backup and use “cp -a ...” to create an archival backup of /boot there.
Then, if the hda3 ext3 filesystem could not be fixed using e2fsck, you could reformat it using “mke2fs -j ...” and then use “cp -a ...” to restore the backup copy to /boot.
If you reformatted hda3 as ext3, you would need to either create 2 mount points and then mount hda3 in one and “/” (i.e., the logical volume) in the other so that you could copy from one to the other OR you could reassemble the entire FC4 setup like this:
mkdir /mnt/sysimage
mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/sysimage
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/sysimage/boot
chroot /mnt/sysimage
cp -a /root/boot_backup/* /boot
If you had other logical volumes for /home, /var, etc., then you should also mount them in a similar manner before using chroot. And the mount point doesn’t have to be named sysimage. It can be anything you want to call it.
I had a similar problem while installing FC4. Grub apparently didn't fully install. Most of the files were missing in the grub directory. I had Redhat 9 installed on a different computer, so I copied the grub directory to a thumb drive, then copied them back the the FC4 computer using a livecd. After editing grub.conf, I did get it to start loading the image file, without success. I did do lots of things before I figured out that this was the problem. Now I plan to reinstall FC4, and copy the files from my thumb drive afterwards. hope this helps
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