Hi. I've done some attempts and following a guide for ubunto I got some improvements.
At the moment the normal.mod is in the boot partition and I'm not starting with the grub2 rescue terminal but with still the selection menu doesn' t appear and the system doesn' t boot. At the moment the system get stuck on: grub2> prompt. I dug a littel in the system and - the boot flag still points to the sda2 (the dell recopvery partition) instead of the one with /boot partition (sda5) - in /etc there is a grub2.cfg file that it is a dangling link to /boot/grub2/grub.cfg probably both of these points are part of the problem. Looking around I found some guides about ubunto (e.g., https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/776643-how-to-rescue-a-non-booting-grub-2-on-linux/) that uses an update-grub command to create the boot loader but I can' t find anything like that for fedora. What I'm I doing wrong now? Walter On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Doug H. <fedoraproject....@wombatz.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 11:48 -0500, Walter Cazzola wrote: > > Hi > > few more questions inline with your reply. > > > chroot /mnt/sysimage > > what should sysimage be? is this a file in the /boot partition? I > > don't have any file with this name in /boot > > Historically (and currently I think), the rescue/repair option for the > Fedora CD & DVD is to look for a Fedora install and then mount it in > /mnt/sysimage. So there would be a /mnt/sysimage/boot for example. > Thus you can do `chroot /mnt/sysimage` and the shell will act like you > are simply logged into the Fedora system. Things would work as if you > had booted normally into the Fedora system. That allows you to do > maintenance using the same full paths as "normal". > > > > > fdisk /dev/sda > > > Command (m for help): a > > > Partition number ([snip] default x): 5 > > > Command (m for help): w > > > The partition table has been altered. > > > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. > > do the numbers already refer to my partitions or I've to change > > something? what should this do? > > I ran an fdisk on a temp loopfile and then altered the output to show > "5" since I think that is the partition that I think might need to be > bootable. What that does is to make partition 5 the boot/bootable > partition. I don't really know how that works at a deeper level and I > have little experience with efi so far. My suggestions are based on > the idea that your bios setup is presenting a traditional/older system > type. > > > > > grub2-install /dev/sda > > if this doesn't work can I go back to the previous situation? if yes > > how? > > The above assumes that your Windows boot utility has already been > messed with and is not usable at the moment. If that is true then I am > not even sure you need to do the grub2-install but it seems like it > would not make it worse. > > But again I don't feel comfortable suggesting these actions unless we > get some community support for it. > > -- > Doug H. > --
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