On Friday 13 June 2003 03:21, Richard Heycock wrote: > I ran grub-install on my root partition instead of my boot partition and > now I cannot boot my machine. I can get to the stage where the kernel tries > to mount the root filesystem but it cannot mount at as it is not the > correct type (reiserfs). > > If I run file -s /dev/hda5 it returns x86 boot sector. I know that most of > the data is still there. Is there anything I can do to get it back? If not > what is the best way to go about re-installing the os? well, I don't use grub so I can tell you how to go back to lilo :(
start a new installation, the moment you get the first screen, press ALT-F2 to go to the shell, manually mount all your filesystem hierarchy to /mnt, chroot to it and run lilo. afaik you can change the grub settings from grub itself, so maybe you can google for the correct setting. Bye -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
