Hi.
I've done some attempts and following a guide for ubunto I got some improvements. - the boot flag still points to the sda2 (the dell recopvery partition) instead of the one with /boot partition (sda5)
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Doug H. <fedoraproject.org@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 11:48 -0500, Walter Cazzola wrote:
> Hi
> few more questions inline with your reply.
> chroot /mnt/sysimage
> what should sysimage be? is this a file in the /boot partition? I
> don't have any file with this name in /boot
Historically (and currently I think), the rescue/repair option for the
Fedora CD & DVD is to look for a Fedora install and then mount it in
/mnt/sysimage. So there would be a /mnt/sysimage/boot for example.
Thus you can do `chroot /mnt/sysimage` and the shell will act like you
are simply logged into the Fedora system. Things would work as if you
had booted normally into the Fedora system. That allows you to do
maintenance using the same full paths as "normal".
> > fdisk /dev/sda
> > Command (m for help): a
> > Partition number ([snip] default x): 5
> > Command (m for help): w
> > The partition table has been altered.
> > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
> do the numbers already refer to my partitions or I've to change
> something? what should this do?
I ran an fdisk on a temp loopfile and then altered the output to show
"5" since I think that is the partition that I think might need to be
bootable. What that does is to make partition 5 the boot/bootable
partition. I don't really know how that works at a deeper level and I
have little experience with efi so far. My suggestions are based on
the idea that your bios setup is presenting a traditional/older system
type.
> > grub2-install /dev/sda
> if this doesn't work can I go back to the previous situation? if yes
> how?
The above assumes that your Windows boot utility has already been
messed with and is not usable at the moment. If that is true then I am
not even sure you need to do the grub2-install but it seems like it
would not make it worse.
But again I don't feel comfortable suggesting these actions unless we
get some community support for it.
--
Doug H.
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