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

Marc Ferguson marcferguson at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 08:30:11 EST 2013


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.

-- 
*Marc Ferguson*

www.fergytech.com | www.digitalalias.net

*"When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!"*
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