How can I get into the fedora system?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Darren Lee writes:

> Hello all,
> 
> Jan 2004 I installed windows professional in my C harddrive. Jan 2005
> I installed fedora in D harddrive. there were a so called "GRUB"  to
> operate these two operating system. recently I installed windows 2003
> server in C drive. I guess I have destroied the "GRUB". When i booted
> with the D drive(fedora). the system tells "Error loading operating".
> I had some important data in the D drive (fedora). So how can I get
> into the fedora system and copy these data out.

When you installed Windows 2003, the Windows installer -- as you've surmised 
-- blew away the bootloader.

You can't just disconnect your primary boot hard drive, then expect to 
boot off your second hard drive with Fedora on it.

Put both of the hard drives back in.  Take the Fedora installation CD or 
DVD, and boot it up.  At the bootprompt, type "linux rescue".  The installer 
should be able to find your existing Fedora partition, and throw you into a 
shell.  As the preceding menu told you, "chroot /mnt/sysimage" will place 
you in the root directory of your Fedora system.  At this point, you should 
be able to run "/sbin/grub-install" and get GRUB reinstalled, or, if you 
wish, copy your data to a floppy.

When you're done, you have to remember to unmount everything properly by 
exiting from your rescue shell, which initiates an orderly unmount and 
reboot.

/me, who spend six hours yesterday trying to get grub to boot with root+boot 
on softraid partitions.


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