I assume you have some kind of rescue disk made by your Linux distro,
or at least have the Linux distro Disc One, that you can boot with
and use to rebuild GRUB.
SWB
On Jul 17, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Chuck Hast wrote:
> Folks,
> I have had some sort of mess up on my hard disk on my work laptop
>
> This machine has (had) dualboot using GRUB, Friday night I shud it
> down
> and when I restarted it all that came up was grub gloading stage 2,
> and then I get a grub prompt. I can not find the boot lines that
> boot to
> either Linux or windows xp... I am trying to figure out if I lost
> the HD or
> what. If I look at the disk I see the two partitions, one reports
> ext2fs
> and the other reports ntfs, (the linux side is supposed to br Riesert
> fs)
>
> This is a area I have not had to get too deep into as of yet, and
> if the
> disk is still recoverable I need to try to avoid loosing it as
> there is
> stuff on there I do not want to loose.
>
> I presently have the SystemRescue CD in it. I can see my partitions
> with partition image, and indeed it shows that the linux system is
> rieserts.
>
> Right now I need good guidance. I was backing this thing up at work
> but ran out of file space, they were clearing some out for me to
> finish
> this week, but have not got to the part where I can do it yet.
>
>
> --
> Chuck Hast
> To paraphrase my flight instructor;
> "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my
> going
> out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
> and twisted metal."
>
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