hi! Yes I use grub as my default boot loader of other OS's, and it was loaded in the /mbr, and sorry for not mentioning it.
right now i m away frm my pc. I will try what u said and let u know accordingly. Thanx pal. Ratnakar --- Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ratnakar Koli on Saturday 03 Dec 2005 15:01 wrote: > > > hi FRIENDS, > > > > I have a multi boot system, with w2k winxp and > FC4. > > > > somehow the s2pid win's crashed and i had to > reinstall > > it....losing out with a working FC4. > > > > Ah! Windows is stupid. Prove it. :-) > You just lost grub from the mbr. FC4 is safe. > > > i tried using linux rescue... but m not able to > get it > > back... > > > > when i run "grub-install /dev/sda7" > > > > it comes back saying "/sbin/grub not found" > > > > i have a IDE on which i have Windows and SATA i > have > > kept for Linux. > > > > I haven't used FC but I think the mechanism should > be the same as it was > earlier. > When you boot into _rescue_ mode your root partition > gets mounted, generally > on /mnt/sysimage under RH. You need to chroot to it. > That's one step I > found missing in the steps you mentioned above. > Once you chroot you can use the grub-install command > to restore grub. > But you didn't mention whether you boot using grub > or some other boot loader > (xosl, ntloader et cetera). If you use grub to boot > into all the OS's, you > should be restoring it to the mbr of the hard drive > which is your primary > boot device which I think in your setup would be > /dev/hda. > So in simple your command to restore FC4 might be: > /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda > > HTH, > > rrs > - -- > Ritesh Raj Sarraf > RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com > Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC > "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, > stealing from many is > research." > "Necessity is the mother of invention." > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDkbl+4Rhi6gTxMLwRAjOMAKC1/8MJO53isJc4vX1r8Ytjxk6hqQCgg/hE > LnnsfBAVUuWh0z04dYOLWbs= > =d0B9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do > you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search > engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the > web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
