[plug] Crashed Linux Installation

[Shayne O'Neill]

>From memory there is a 'recovery console' on the winblows install CD's

You load that up, log in, and something somewhere does the trick.

Also, if you resized a partition, that can go catastrophy mode sometimes.
Ungood.

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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:18:23 +0800, Arie Hol <arie99 at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> > Greetings to all,
> >
> > I have just had a linux install go belly up !!!!
> >
> > I was reinstalling Linux on a dual boot machine with Windows.
> >
> > Grub misbehaved and wrecked the MBR on the primary  master.
> >
> > In an effort to cleanup the mess I have deleted all the linux partitions.
> >
> > But cannot remove the last remnants of Grub from the boot sector.
> >
> > I have tried 'fdisk /mbr' and sys c: from a dos boot disk - but no luck at all.
>
> Whatversion of windows? Don't w2k and xp use something different now?
>
> Have you tried booting from your windows install cd and repairing?
>
> >
> > When I try to boot the system - it goes through the normal bios display - but when it gets to read
> > the boot sector it just sits there flashing "Grub" as a prompt with no error message - but the
> > machine is locked up and will only respond to a hard reset.
> >
> > Any Ideas before I erase the whole drive and go fishing !!!!
> >
> > I would like to recover the system and the 30 Gb of files on it.
> >
> > Not a good day, just upgraded to new HDD, 128 Mb Radeon 9200 SE and a Billion 5100 and I can't play
> > with it.
> >
> > Will also need some advice to get X working on the Radeon, when I first tried all I could get was
> > the command line fashing on and off for 1 Minute every 5 minutes. No fun in that either.
> >
> > Hmmm, maybe I will go fishing instead.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Regards Arie
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> --
> Regards,
> Russ
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