At the grub prompt, try running these commands
rootnoverify (hd0, 0) ---- or (hd0, 1) depending on what your winxp partition is
chainloader +1
boot
hopefully that will stick you into windows
you can also try and manually boot redhat by
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.whatever root=/dev/hdc(whatever your redhat partition is) initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.whatever.img
boot
if you don't know what kernel you are running, double tab after the /boot/ will autocomplete file names at this point.
Hope this helps Ed
From: "j. gomez" <jg573@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Help, my system died - stuck at GRUB Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:32:08 -0800 (PST)
Hi, I have (well, more like had) a Thinkpad X20 Laptop dual booting between Redhat 9 & XP Pro .
Everything was working fine, then last nite I accidentally lifted it off the docking base while in the middle of a X-windows/Gnome session doing some suring. It froze hard. I had no choice but to power cycle it & reboot.
When it came back it gave me the Grub boot menu, I selected Linux again. When I got into the shell it started giving me disk errors. Then it froze up/became unresponsive before I could run an fsck. It started freaking out, I got 'bad magic number errors', i/o / disk errors, etc...
I rebooted again, this time GRUB menu did not show up. Instead it give me some GRUB shell with just a GRUB command prompt "grub>" It says to hit TAB for info on commands & what not. I am stuck here.
I don't have any boot disks with me & was wondering if there is anyway I can force GRUB to boot at least XP, or Linux preferably. Any ideas? I am new to Grub & Redhat 9 so forgive me if this is newbie'ish.
I am stuck & out of town on biz travel with an incapacitated laptop now (not good). If anyone could offer some help with this I'd be very grateful...
Thanks...
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