[ale] why Linux hurts/disappoints me more than once

[Robert Slaughter]

You're going to have to create a bootable 'rescue CD', and boot into it,
to access a shell and run the gparted and/or fdisk as suggested below.

Possibilities include:

      * http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
      * or some from the list here: http://www.livecdlist.com/ (look for
        'Rescue')


On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 15:00 -0500, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:

> Thank You.  If I cant even get into the OS how can I do what you have
> suggested.
> 
> Is there something that I can do to get to the shell  to run
> commands ?
> 
> -Narahari
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Kaerka Phillips
> <kbphillips80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>         Based your details, this doesn't sound like a hard drive
>         failure, but instead, like there is a gpt bootsector installed
>         rather than an mbr, or other unrecognisable bootsector.
>         One way to determine this would be to use either gparted or
>         fdisk on the drive to determine the mbr/gpt type, and if you
>         do have gpt in use, then install grub2 instead of regular grub
>         to handle this.  If it is an mbr, but grub hasn't properly
>         installed to it, you may need to do a grub-install to change
>         the mbr.  Another area that could be an issue is if the boot
>         partition or drive isn't set to active, this could cause a
>         similar failure.
> 
> 




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