Grub not booting Linux

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 23:40 -0700, Frank Chen wrote:
> I have a dual boot system. When I was using Windows
> earlier, I deleted a partition on the hard disk in
> preparation for installing another version of Linux.
> Big mistake. Now grub couldn't find the root
> partition, and it doesn't recognize the root partition
> because Fedora 3 uses ext3 file system. I can't use
> the kernel command to identify the kernel image. Any
> instructions on how to recover from this situation?

Try booting back into Windows and adding the partition back. That should
cause the partitions to be numbered how they were originally, and grub
should then boot Linux OK.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>