<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16640" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- From: "Vincent Onelli" <<A href="">vonelli@optonline.net</A>> To: <<A href="">fedora-list@redhat.com</A>> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:15 PM Subject: Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 50, Issue 223 >> 1. Lost fc7 boot loader: (Vincent Onelli) >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 8 >> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:48:25 -0430 >> From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <<A href="">pocallaghan@gmail.com</A>> >> Subject: Re: Lost fc7 boot loader: >> To: For users of Fedora <<A href="">fedora-list@redhat.com</A>> >> Message-ID: <<A href="">1209496705.27290.42.camel@bree.homelinux.com</A>> >> Content-Type: text/plain >> >> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:59 -0400, Vincent Onelli wrote: >>> Hi, >>> Is there any way to restore the boot loader? I made dome error, >>> reinstalled the windows XP without first back up all the data in >>> fedora. >>> I have an HP Pavilion zv6000 with AMD athlon 64, 80 GB and 1GB of >>> memory dual boot with windows and Fedora 7 (fc8 will not install in >>> this computer, I also posted this problem but I did not get any >>> answer) the HD is partition at 40GB each. I try to restore using fc7 >>> original disk used for installation but it does not restore the boot >>> loader. >> >> Do you have a Rescue disk? If so, use it to boot, do >> "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and then "/sbin/grub-install". If your >> old /boot/grub.conf file is OK, grub should install the bootloader. You >> might want to check that grub.conf has an entry for Windows so your dual >> boot will still work. > >> poc >> > Thank you so much for the answer. > On the command /sbin/grub-install it return a message: > "install device not specified > USAGE grub-install [OPTION] install device > so I entered: "/sbin/grub-install fedora7" this time was ok, but on reboot > start the windows only. > what am I doing wrong? >> ------------------------------ I finally realize that should be entered for the install device, so I repeated the all process for the device I entered /dev/sda which went through fine, and appears that regenerated the boot loader. When boot it came up with the 3 selection just like was originally 2 line for fc7 and 1 line for windows, windows is OK fc7 give me the following message: root (hd0,1) filesystem type unknown partition type 0xf kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.15-80.fc7 r0 root=/dev/volGroup00/ rhgb quite error 17: cannot mount selected partition. I appreciate very much if any one can help me on this. thank you so much in advance. ></DIV> <DIV>I posted the above message which I received confirmation but no answer yet. Am I to assume that there is no know solution to my problem? If such is the case, I will appreciate if some body will let me know thus I proceed with a new reinstallation. I was hoppening to some how with your help to recover the data files.</DIV> <DIV>Thank you again.</DIV> <DIV> >> End of fedora-list Digest, Vol 50, Issue 223 >> ******************************************** >> </DIV></BODY></HTML>