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.
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