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.
>
>
>
>
What Distro are you running? Grub is in windows territory. Your antivirus
or security update in Windows could have seen it as a problem.
Many Linux install disks have an option of booting the installed OS as
an option if you start them.
Richard Smoot
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