recover fedora core 3

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Feb 10 17:51:35 UTC 2005


Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
> Yes. You will need the FC3 boot CD for this:
> 
> 1. at the "boot:" prompt, type "linux rescue"
> 
> 2. after getting through the initial steps, you are at a shell
> 
> 3. at the shell type "chroot /mnt/sysimage"
> 
> 4. type "fdisk -l" to determine the device number of your root
> partition. This will look something like /dev/hda1
> 
> 5. then, type "grub"
> 
> 6. this should give you the grub prompt: "grub>"
> 
> 7. type: "root (hd0,0)" assuming your root is at /dev/hda1. for
> /dev/hdb3 it would look like "root (hd1,4)". you get the idea ..

for /dev/hdb3 it would look like "root (hd1,2)" actually...

Paul.




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