[ale] What is grub > and I Killed Access to Desktop

[Jack Schneider]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:30:11 -0500
Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I really screwed the pooch on this one. I have two issues: 1) how to
> use GRUB recovery console and 2) non-bootable LiveUSB. So; here's my
> first issue. I have two hard drives and my original setup was:
> 
> * sda1 - windows (marked as boot)
> * sda2 - /boot
> * sda3 - lvm (fedora)
> * sdb1 - data
> 
> With the release of Fedora 18 I figured I'll finally remove my Windows
> partition and turn it into a home directory. I fire up gparted and do
> just that. I'm not familiar with UUID so I simply changed the "label"
> to "home." I then use rsync to copy my existing /home directory into
> the new partition. All seems well...
> 
> I reboot and after GRUB selects the latest instance of Fedora 17 I'm
> sent to some sort of recovery mode. I can only log in as root. My
> data partition is still mounted, but my newly created home partition
> no longer shows any data in it. I wonder if it has something to do
> with me changing it from NTFS to ext4.
> 
> Either way I'm thinking that my GRUB is pointing to the wrong
> partition and stupidly run "grub install /dev/sda1". Now when I
> reboot and GRUB fires it immediately goes into a GRUB recovery
> console and I'm completely lost at this point.
> 
> At this point I feel I've gone way down into the rabbit hole. I dont'
> mind losing the home directories since my data partition is still
> functioning. I want to just start fresh and do a clean install of
> Fedora 18. My main beef is I can't boot from the newly created Fedora
> 18 LiveUSB. It works on my laptop, but not on my desktop. When in
> GRUB recovery I ran "grub> usb" and it's supposed to show any USB's
> plugged in, but nothing shows up.
> 
Hi, Marc 

Try  pmagic_2012_12_25,  Free-be! Runs in memory! More tools than ever
needed. Looks like Gentoo derivative.  Should allow you to rebuild
booting and anything else!.

Jack