Re: Boot probs after re-loading Win98 on dual boot system

From: John M Carter (johnmcarter_at_highstream.com)
Date: 04/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 06:08:57 +0100

Thanks for the response. To answer your questions;

1. It's the sh-2.056# that doesn't have lilo or grub in the sbin folder.

2. I'm pretty sure it's my old system that's only part mounted into the
rescue process

3. I do know the partition names and formats - hda7 and hda8 are ext3,
hda9 is linux swap.

Hope you can help

"Spamless" <Spamless@Nil.nil> wrote in message
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> In article <108lbq6dots3k70@corp.supernews.com>, John M Carter wrote:
> > See the messages below re similar problem.
> >
> > Mine is a little different because I'm a newbie and was using GRUB with
> > RHL9.
> >
> > I've tried using the original RHL9 CD's to boot and use the 'linux
rescue'
> > option which attempts to load my original Linux system into
/mnt/sysimage
> > but reports an error and says that only part of the system is 'loaded'.
I
> > then get a prompt of "sh-2.056#" and if I do a ls command get the sbin
> > folder showing along with others but it does not contain either lilo or
> > grub, so the commands suggested below don't work.
>
> /mnt/sysimage/sbin/ does not have lilo or grub?
>
> "only part of the system is 'loaded'" - does that refer to loading
> the system from the CD or mounting the partitions from your hard drive?
>
> Do you know what partitions (hda, etc.) contain your system and the
> formats of the partitions (ext3, etc.)? (at one time, as root, I
> did a very, bad thing ... I meant to copy stuff from a directory newdir,
> to / and typed:
>
> NOT
>
> mv newdir/* /
>
> but
>
> mv /* newdir/
>
> The rescue CD no longer believed I had linux installed and I had to mount
> the partitions, they were still ext3 formatted, and move things back
> where they belonged.
>
> >
> > As I'm a newbie could someone please spell out in words of one syllable
how
> > I can retrieve my GRUB bootloader to work. I'm rather concerned that the
> > Linux system may be damaged in view of the error above but if I can get
GRUB
> > to work and try loading Linux I'll know for sure!
> >
> > Many Thanks (cos I really don't want to re-load it all again!!!)
> >
> >
> >
> >

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