How to recover Fedora Core 5?

Vinicius cviniciusm at uol.com.br
Sat Sep 30 23:20:27 UTC 2006


Vinicius escreveu:
> Vinicius <cviniciusm <at> uol.com.br> writes:
> 
>> Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, 28/09/06 04:31 +0100, Vinicius wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have installed a Windows XP on another partition than my FC5.
>>>> The system boot
>>>> on Windows. I'm unable to do a dual-boot FC5 and XP.
>>>> The steps followed are below:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Boot from DVD, then on the prompt: linux rescue;
>>>> 2. from the rescue mode prompt: chroot /mnt/sysimage;
>>>> 3. then: /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda.
>>>>
>>>> So, occurs an error about stage1 incomplete or something like that.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas, please?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>> Vinicius.
>>> Could you list your partitions?
>>>
>>>  1. fdisk /dev/hda
>>>  2. 'p' to print partition table
>>>  3. 'q' to exit fdisk
>>>
>>> Attach the output in step 2 to the list. People might be able to help.
>>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> # fdisk -l
>> omitting empty partition (5)
>>
>> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/hda1   *           1         688     5526328+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/hda2             689        2295    12908227+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/hda3            2296        4865    20643525    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
>> /dev/hda4            4592        4865     2200873+   b  W95 FAT32
>> /dev/hda5            2296        2308      104359+  83  Linux
>> /dev/hda6            2309        4591    18338166   8e  Linux LVM
>>
>> TIA,
>> Vinicius.
>>
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> My /etc/fstab is following:
> "
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot              /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> devpts                   /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> tmpfs                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> proc                     /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> sysfs                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda5                /mnt/fat                auto   
> auto,rw,uid=0,gid=501,showexec,quiet,fmask=117,dmask=007 0 0
> /dev/hda1                /mnt/windows-sistema    ntfs    
> ro,umask=0222,gid=502 0 0
> /dev/hda3                /mnt/windows-dados      ntfs    
> ro,umask=0222,gid=502 0 0
> /dev/fd0           	/media/floppy            auto    
> rw,noauto,user,sync	0 0
> "
> 
> Please, help.
> 
> 
> TIA,
> Vinicius.
> 

Solved it.

The Win XP reorganized the partition table, so I had to change it.


Regards,
Vinicius.

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