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Because of SATA recognition problems, I have been booting Fedora Core 3 via GRUB on a separate HDD. Somehow my GRUB boot diskette got overwritten, and I cannot access the system.
Every attempt to create a new GRUB boot disk appears to work but on bootup it fails with a "Stage2Geom error". The system, on which I created the original GRUB bootdisk, has not changed.
Mkbootdisk fails as the kernel is too big.
The rescue CD works, but doesn't give me a successful entry into the existing system.
Can anyone help me with how to get GRUB working again, or how to replace it successfully with LILO?
Every attempt to create a new GRUB boot disk appears to work but on bootup it fails with a "Stage2Geom error". The system, on which I created the original GRUB bootdisk, has not changed.
Mkbootdisk fails as the kernel is too big.
The rescue CD works, but doesn't give me a successful entry into the existing system.
Can anyone help me with how to get GRUB working again, or how to replace it successfully with LILO?
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This might work for you. If you know where your data is, and hopefully, you made partitions besides the / partition, you should be able to isolate the data, and re-install Fedora 3. Then, edit /etc/fstab to bring your data partitions back online.
For example, here is my partition layout:
In my case, I could re-install, just as long as I leave /home alone.
I am not aware of any ways to install lilo unless you are in the environment.
I am curious, if you were using your HDD for booting the system, why you had a floppy disk involved.
Christian
This might work for you. If you know where your data is, and hopefully, you made partitions besides the / partition, you should be able to isolate the data, and re-install Fedora 3. Then, edit /etc/fstab to bring your data partitions back online.
For example, here is my partition layout:
[christian@frodo ~]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 497829 269544 202583 58% / none 257808 0 257808 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 3020140 254392 2612332 9% /home /dev/hda3 4032124 1334764 2492532 35% /store /dev/hda6 1510032 35468 1397856 3% /tmp /dev/hda2 8870804 4104600 4315584 49% /usr /dev/hda7 1004024 147588 805432 16% /var /dev/hdc 8285408 8285408 0 100% /media/cdrom
In my case, I could re-install, just as long as I leave /home alone.
I am not aware of any ways to install lilo unless you are in the environment.
I am curious, if you were using your HDD for booting the system, why you had a floppy disk involved.
Christian
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