[LBo] Re: Grub wont come up

[Anita Lewis]

On 03/03/2007 12:05 AM Rafi Gabzu wrote:
> I tried the fdisk /dev/hda  t , 2,83 .  I also printed the partition and =
it
> showed me that /dev/hda2 is a Linux partition, still the gparted wont
> recognize it and Grub gives me the same errors when I try the find comman=
d.
> =


That does not look good.  I have a feeling that you still won't be able
to mount that partition, but you could try.  I wonder if this has
something to do with extending the size of the partition into the
windows partition.  You did this after you installed Linux on it; so
that new partition has ntfs stuff on the beginning of it.  So it is part
Linux and part NTFS filesystem on it even though the partition type is
Linux.

Normally partitions are extended and then the filesystem is created.  It
might be that the only way to mount that partition again is to put it
back to the size it was.  That would make sense.  If you have data on
there that is critical for you, then you might have to do that.  If not,
then I think you might want to reinstall.

One of the dangers of putting the thing back like it was is that you
might create problems on your windows partition.  It would be best to
leave the windows partition as it is and make that extra part into
unallocated space for now.  If you had the printout from fdisk of the
original partition table, you would be able to make /dev/hda2 exactly as
it was. Getting it approximately right will probably not work.  Hmmm.
That reminds me of a tool that might find this.

Well, the first question is: Do you have data on /dev/hda2 that you
need?  It is not worth trying to salvage it if you do not.

Anita


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