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

[Marc Ferguson]

Will do Jack. Thanks.


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Jack Schneider <puck at dp-indexing.com>wrote:

> 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
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