Steven and Aaron, Thanks for your kind replies. I tried what you've suggested; however, I am afraid it's really screwed up (unless I am doing something wrong). While trying to run Rescue mode by pressing CONTINUE, I get the following msg: You don't have any Linux partition. Press return to get a shell. The system will reboot automatically when you exit from the shell. Then I get this msg followed by a promt: When finished please exit from the shell and your system will reboot. sh-3.00# At the shell promt, I tried the following: sh-3.00# ls sh-3.00# cd mnt sh-3.00# ls runtime source I can somehow get to mnt directory, but there are only two directories, and there is no sysimage directory. Am I missing something, or am I truely hosed? Do I need to format the entire hard drive and reinstall? Thank you for your help, in advance. --peter --- akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:59:36PM -0800, peter wu > wrote: > > Hi, all, > > > > I had a dual-boot (Windows XP on NTFS and Linux), > but > > I wanted to partition the C: drive where Windows > XP > > was installed. I used Partition Magic to first > resize > > C: drive to a smaller one, and then create a new > > partition with a letter G. However, somehow, > Partition > > Magic screwed up, now I can't seem to boot to > Linux, > > whereas I can still boot to Windows from GRUB by > the > > following: > > > > GRUB> rootnoverify (hd0,1) > > GRUB> chainloader +1 > > GRUB> boot > > > > I tried to boot to Linux by doing the following: > > > > GRUB> root (hd0,9) > > GRUB> kernel / <tab> > > GRUB> kernel /boot <tab> > > > > But it doesn't seem to find vmlinuz... in /boot. > When > > I do "kernel / <tab>" it gives the "possible" > > commands. I am wondering if there is any command > > (possibly kernel command?) which lists the entire > > directory (like ls in Unix or dir in DOS). > > > > I looked at PartitionMagic, but depressingly, all > > partitions for Linux seem to have zero unused > space, > > i.e., everything appears to be used. (e.g., size > MB: > > 27,956.0; Used MB: 27,956.0 and Unused MB: 0.0) > > > > Can I somehow recover from this? Should I reformat > > everything, I am afraid? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > --peter > > -- > Well that depends on how shrewed up the partition > table really is. I > would boot linux rescue, chroot to /mnt/sysimage > which should be your > / Linux partition, then do a fdisk. > fdisk can re-establish the partition table. Then if > that works create > a grub.conf, do a grub-install and you should be in > business. > ======================================================================= > Fortune's Real-Life Courtroom Quote #7: > > Q: What happened then? > A: He told me, he says, "I have to kill you because > you can identify me." > Q: Did he kill you? > A: No. > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
