On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Jim <binarynut@comcast.net> wrote:
On 06/27/2012 08:37 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote:

On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 18:44 -0400, Jim wrote:
grub rescue>     in fedora 17 .

What CD do I use to get into  chroot /mnt/sysimage ,    F17 Live CD ??
I used the "Fedora 17 Desktop Edition" install disk for a recovery disk.
I downloaded it from here:
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options

When you boot up you'll get a menu.  The second option is the "repair"
option if I recall correctly and that's what you're looking for.


After further test with Gparted and Smartctl I found out I no longer have the  /  and /home partitions on the drive.

And smartctl  shows that hard drive has failures and old-age problems.

I just installed Fedora 17 on the hard drive three days ago.



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Hi Jim,

Being an end user myself, when I first got into Fedora I was losing data constantly from upgrades, as I assume is common for every new user. It was very tough to realise that I just wiped out all of the data. A positive that I took from the experience is that it taught me to always backup; now that we are upgrading every 6 months I just save everything on an external drive - nothing on the hard drive except the essentials that need to be on the computer.

Hope this helps; I really wish there was something that could be done.

Regards,
Richard