[LBo] Re: Grub wont come up

[Billy Pollifrone]

Rafi Gabzu wrote:
> I boot from  a floppy disk that contain GRUB , without it (suddenly) I bo=
ot
> straight to Windows, which works
> The error I'm getting  when trying to find /usr/sbin  "Error 15 : file not
> found " or "Error 17:cannot mount selected partition" when I'm using tab.
> When I look at the partitions through gparted I see
> 1. /dev/hda1 ntfs 19 GiB - my windows partition
> 2. /dev/hda2  unknown 17Gib
> 3. 1Gib - unallocate -  I do not know where this came from ....  probably
> used to be  part  of the Linux partition and maybe  is causing me all the
> trouble
> 4. Swap - 588 M
> =

> Item 2 should have been my Linux ext3 partition but it wont recognize it =
as
> any fs. When I try to resize /combine item 2 and/or 3
> it won't let me .

It sounds like the partition has been ruined somehow. You cannot combine
 item 3 as there is nothing there. Unallocated means that the section
has nothing there.

As I said in a previous message, ext3 should be detected without needing
to 'tell' the software what it is. If it cannot detect it as ext3, then
something may have become corrupted on it. This is why backups are so
important.

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(o_  Billy Pollifrone
//\  billy AT silverbaseball DOT com
V_/_ Registered Linux User #433318 (http://counter.li.org)

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