Hey don I've had the same problem and what I ended up doing was booting
into a live mandriva linux cd and backing up almy data to a usb hardrve
and then re-partitoning my hardrive and re-installing both Windows Vista
and Fedora 8. If you can find some mirroring software you might be able
to mirror
Don Levey wrote:
Phil Meyer wrote:
Ah, yes a different reason for grub to fail -- the file system
containing its files cannot be mounted.
Interestingly, I just tried manually mounting the disk:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage
and I can get a directory listing. So at least *part* of
Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:41 -0400, Don Levey wrote:
But there is no separate /boot partition. The /boot directory lives
in /. I used to make a separate /boot partition, but was told a while
back (perhaps 2 years or so) that this was no longer necessary.
That *may* be your
My F9 laptop won't boot this morning - I go through the POST, but when I
ordinarily get to the Hit Enter for options boot screen, all I get is:
GRUB
at the top left of my screen. Does this mean I need to reinstall grub
and the MBR? I can access the HD via a liveCD, and everything
Don Levey wrote:
My F9 laptop won't boot this morning - I go through the POST, but when
I ordinarily get to the Hit Enter for options boot screen, all I get
is:
GRUB
at the top left of my screen. Does this mean I need to reinstall grub
and the MBR? I can access the HD via a liveCD,
Phil Meyer wrote:
Ah, yes a different reason for grub to fail -- the file system
containing its files cannot be mounted.
Interestingly, I just tried manually mounting the disk:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage
and I can get a directory listing. So at least *part* of this is
working.
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:41 -0400, Don Levey wrote:
But there is no separate /boot partition. The /boot directory lives
in /. I used to make a separate /boot partition, but was told a while
back (perhaps 2 years or so) that this was no longer necessary.
That *may* be your problem. e.g. Up
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Don Levey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My F9 laptop won't boot this morning - I go through the POST, but when I
ordinarily get to the Hit Enter for options boot screen, all I get is:
GRUB
at the top left of my screen. Does this mean I need to reinstall
