[Klug-general]I've just had a slight problem with linux

[Darren Chenery]

I didn't get any error messages just the word "GRUB" on it's own.
My linux is installed on my only sata drive I think the partition was "sda1" but I can't be sure
 
Darren 
 
enigma_blackbird at hotmail.com 


Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:51:47 +0000From: cokehabit at gmail.comTo: kent at mailman.lug.org.ukSubject: Re: [Klug-general]I've just had a slight problem with linux
Darren Chenery wrote: 


Since I'm a total newbie to linux and after installing fedora I got an alert to say that there were updates available, so I clicked on whatever it was (I forget now) to proceed with the update procedure.   After it had all gone through, it said that a reboot was needed, but on rebooting, my system seemed to have frozen and the last bit of text on the screen was "GRUB", the hard disc access light was on, not flickering, but on constantly.   I have 3 physical hard drives the first two have windows partitions and the third is only for linux.  I have had to reinstall windows, since trying to reinstall fedora, had no effect on remedying the system freeze.   Do any of you know how, in the future (when I reinstall linux again) to correct the problem should it occur again?Darren  enigma_blackbird at hotmail.comDid you get a GRUB ERROR: 3 or similar?A couple of points: You dont need to reinstall windows or linux. To install the windows bootloader again just inset the cd, log into the windows installation (usually #1) and type 'fixmbr'. That will put the windows NTLDR (windows NT loader) back in the master boot record.You also dont need to reinstall any of you linuxes (sp?) either. Just grab a live cd from any distro (the gentoo minimal is good because it is only 60mb). boot up off the cd and type (as root) chroot /dev/<disk/partition> disk/partition being the root partition of where your linux distro is. Gentoo-wiki goes through it very throughly but here are the main ones for you:http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Quick_GRUB - A quick version, probably the best for youhttp://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_boot - A good one for you to readhttp://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Boot_from_Windows_Bootloader_(NTLDR)_and_why - How to dual boot using NTLDR, not really for you but fun to read nonetheless.Ubuntu's forums say how to recover your system from a MBR problem also: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351http://www.ozzu.com/ftopic47272.html is a bit for fedora.Grub also do a recovery disk somewhere but i cant find itIf you tell me what disk and partition your linux is on i can tell you the exact commands to use.George
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