Help, my system died - stuck at GRUB

[Ed Kim]

At the grub prompt,
try running these commands

>  rootnoverify (hd0, 0)  ---- or (hd0, 1) depending on what your winxp 
>partition is
>  chainloader +1
>  boot

hopefully that will stick you into windows

you can also try and manually boot redhat by

>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.whatever root=/dev/hdc(whatever your redhat 
>partition is) initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.whatever.img
>boot

if you don't know what kernel you are running, double tab after the /boot/ 
will autocomplete file names at this point.

Hope this helps
Ed



>From: "j. gomez" <jg573 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Help, my system died - stuck at GRUB
>Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:32:08 -0800 (PST)
>
>Hi,
>I have (well, more like had) a Thinkpad X20 Laptop
>dual booting between Redhat 9 & XP Pro .
>
>Everything was working fine, then last nite I
>accidentally lifted it off the docking base while in
>the middle of a X-windows/Gnome session doing some
>suring.
>It froze hard.
>I had no choice but to power cycle it & reboot.
>
>When it came back it gave me the Grub boot menu, I
>selected Linux again.
>When I got into the shell it started giving me disk
>errors.
>Then it froze up/became unresponsive before I could
>run an fsck.
>It started freaking out, I got 'bad magic number
>errors', i/o / disk errors, etc...
>
>I rebooted again, this time GRUB menu did not show up.
>Instead it give me some GRUB shell with just a GRUB
>command prompt "grub>"
>It says to hit TAB for info on commands & what not.
>I am stuck here.
>
>I don't have any boot disks with me & was wondering if
>there is anyway I can force GRUB to boot at least XP,
>or Linux preferably.
>Any ideas?
>I am new to Grub & Redhat 9 so forgive me if this is
>newbie'ish.
>
>I am stuck & out of town on biz travel with  an
>incapacitated laptop now (not good).
>If anyone could offer some help with this I'd  be very
>grateful...
>
>Thanks...
>
>
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