not able to boot to Linux

Yogi pn yougander at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 12:57:45 UTC 2005


Tried to reinstall grub with >grub-install /dev/hda but it doesn't seem to
reinstall grub and upon reboot the system gets back to the grub> prompt. Can
you please give more explanation on how to reinstall grub??

On 12/2/05, Kumaresh.P at tcs.com <Kumaresh.P at tcs.com> wrote:
>
>
> hi,
>
> boot the linux box into rescue mode with a boot cd. To do this, at the
> boot prompt, enter linux rescue and press enter.
>
> the system will boot into rescue mode. after this, execute
>
> >chroot /mnt/sysimage (this is basically your installation of linux)
>
> after this, the system will take you to "your" linux installation. once
> you are here, execute the followin command:
>
> >grub-install.
>
> this will re-install your grub and the system will allow u to login to
> windows/linux.
>
>
> Kumaresh
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> Yogi pn <yougander at gmail.com>
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> Hi,
>    I have a dual boot machine with Windows 2003 and RHEL 4 configured on
> it. I formatted a logical partition on windows 2003 and tried to reboot,
> after that i'm not able to boot to neither windows nor RHEL, i get grub>
> prompt after rebooting the machine!!!!! can you guys help me to
> troubleshoot
> this problem!!!! Thanks in advance n have a gr88 weekend!
>
> Regards,
> Yogi
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